[BushMeister]

Research reactors aren't required to be protected against sabotage in the same kinds of ways that power reactors are," said Matthew Bunn of Harvard University, former adviser to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. "Security costs money and if you actually imposed serious security requirements on them, many of them would probably end up shutting down."

Harvard has an endowment of $25 billion. They can afford a few rent-a-cops if they want to play around with redioactive materials.

As for other schools, they can foot some of the bill and the feds can pay the rest. That's money well spent, compared to bridges to nowhere, etc..

It's amazing that we allow these nuclear facilities to be wide-open targets for terorists. A half-dozen Islamic loonies with AKs could completely take over a facility, stack it with ammonium nitrate and blow it sky-high.

[Cooter]

I don't think Harvard owns or operates a research reactor. They would use the one at MIT. Director states the facts on MIT's nuclear reactor