5 Things You Wouldn't Expect a Nuclear Reactor To Do

Did you know that a nuclear reactor isn't the same thing as a nuclear power plant? What a nuclear reactor can do might surprise you. ---------- Other reactor footage from: Czech Technical University in Prague (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOpdolSRqg) Los Alamos National Lab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4QhJEX6DiQ) Reactor fuel image from Neutron Radiography of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel at Idaho National Laboratory (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875389215006781) Elevator Music Two Point Oh by JackBillPlatypus (https://soundcloud.com/jackbillplatypus/elevator-music-two-point-oh) ---------- Find us online! MIT Nuclear Reactor: https://nrl.mit.edu/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MITK12 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MITK12Videos http://k12videos.mit.edu ---------- made with love at MIT Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA, MIT http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-and-conditions