Nuclear future on a smaller scale | Texarkana Breaking News

Nuclear future on a smaller scale | Texarkana Breaking News: CORVALLIS, Ore.—It's not quite Stagg Field, the University of Chicago site of the first nuclear chain reaction in 1942. But perched in what looks like a giant birdcage at Oregon State University is a steel cylinder nearly 20 feet tall, thick as a redwood, bristling with gauges and wrapped in a tangle of wires. Nearby, in a windowless control room, two dozen digital displays surround a central operations bench.