The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) established its Internet Reactor Laboratory (IRL), with the help of Dr. Hawari’s Nuclear Reactor program (NRP), as a means to provide practical reactor operating experience to member states that do not have a research reactor.

The IRL project is a cost-effective way to educate groups of students in research reactor physics, and can assist states in educating the human capital needed for ensuing nuclear undertakings. This provides access to a virtual research reactor that countries otherwise might not have.

The IRL had been successfully demonstrated here at NCSU’s PULSTAR reactor that an Internet computer link could deliver practical experiments from its reactor to students at other universities, domestically and internationally.

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