One day before the announcement was made, 'Today in St. Louis' took you inside Mizzou's current research reactor, known as MURR, where they're producing life-saving medical radioisotopes for ...

The NextGen MURR will produce radioisotopes crucial for cancer treatment and research, supplementing the current reactor's supply. The design phase, costing $10 million, will take about six months ...

One of the largest individual amounts of that total, at $50 million, was set to go to the University of Missouri's new research reactor, the $1 billion NextGen MURR project. The reactor will ...