The room is deep underground, beneath a university building in Indiana, humming with the low drone of a server farm. Inside, a reactor has been running since the early sixties.

No dials. No knobs. No analog gauges of any kind.

Instead: keyboards, computer screens, ethernet cables, the complete nervous system of a machine that is also, formally, a licensed nuclear reactor.

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