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March 11, 2010

OSU engineer leads effort to make reactors smaller, simpler

  • Jose Reyes Jr. hopes it will help spark a nuclear power renaissance.
    • By SCOTT LEARN
    The Oregonian

    CORVALLIS, Ore. — Jose Reyes Jr. was working at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1979 when the nuclear core in a reactor at Three Mile Island partially melted down.

    Reyes and four other members of a grand jury task force discovered plant operators were hit with multiple alarms in a complicated control room. “We set them up for failure,” he says.


     
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