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Science 22 March 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5563, pp. 2217 - 2218
DOI: 10.1126/science.1070936
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Policy Forum

NUCLEAR RESEARCH:
The Past and Future of University Research Reactors

Kenneth C. Rogers

Research nuclear reactors at U.S. universities continue to contribute materially to research of value to the nation. Despite a number of high-level studies sponsored by the federal government that expressed deep concern, their number has shrunk to less than one-half that of 30 years ago. What is now being done and what will be required to stem these losses are discussed in this Policy Forum.

The author, a member of the Corradini panel (2, 7), is a former Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1987-1997) and President Emeritus of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA. E-mail: kcrogers{at}aol.com

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