After fifteen years of continuous operation, the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology is being discontinued by the US Atomic Energy Commission. The school, which was organized early in 1950 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory by a group including E. P. Wigner and A. M. Weinberg, has over the years provided instruction in nuclear technology to more than a thousand US and foreign students. The AEC gave as its reasons for closing ORSORT (1) the increased capabilities of universities in the US and abroad to provide MS and PhD programs in nuclear engineering, (2) the establishment of a number of ORSORT‐type schools by atomic energy agencies in several countries, and (3) increasing difficulties experienced by foreign students in obtaining financial support for training at ORSORT.
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May 01 1965
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Reactor school closes. Physics Today 1 May 1965; 18 (5): 110. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3047392
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