Check your pulse 😱 Penn State’s Breazeale TRIGA reactor is performing a pulse maneuver. This happens when the core is brought up to power with a special “control rod” inserted. The rod is then suddenly ejected. PSU is one of seven schools to receive recent funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to upgrade research reactors like Breazeale, which is the longest continuously operating university research reactor in the U.S. #nuclear #NuclearEnergy | U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear