Abstract A nuclear reactor was built in 1956 by North American Aviation, Inc. for Armour Research Foundation on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. The reactor was located in ARF's Physics & Electrical Engineering Research Building (aka, PER Building). The reactor was the first one built in the United States to be used for non-military industrial research. Armour Research Foundation, a private research laboratory affiliated with Illinois Tech, did contact work for both...

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Un-edited, raw video on DVD of the ribbon-cutting event that was held for the IIT wind turbine unit at Illinois Institute of Technology on July 20, 2011. Participants include: Hamid Arastoopour (of WISER); Mohammad Shahidehpour (Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation); Brian Connor (U.S. Departmnet of Energy); Alan Hays (Viryd); Michael Polsky (Invenergy); and Terry Frigo (IIT).