[3] In June 2017, a suspicious package was found near the reactor that caused the evacuation of four Missouri University of Science and Technology campus buildings.

[5] The two full-time MSTR senior reactor operators (SROs) resigned due to receiving poor compensation, and campus administration was unwilling to commit the necessary resources to retain the skilled staff due to budget cuts affecting the University of Missouri System.

[5] The reactor core is situated inside a standing pool of high-purity light water on a grid plate suspended from a movable rail bridge.

Other facilities, called rabbits, are used to pneumatically inject a sample directly into the core of the reactor for a specified amount of time.

The facility allows authorized distance users engaged in collaborative activities with Missouri S&T to remotely manipulate and analyze neutron irradiated samples.

"[7] In October 2012, Westinghouse Electric Corporation signed a multi-year research and collaboration agreement with Missouri S&T to utilize MSTR and "support the development of multiple cutting-edge research projects at the institutions that will benefit the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project and the nuclear energy industry as a whole".

The camp involves tours of the Missouri S&T reactor, as well as several focused areas of study and lab experiments related to nuclear engineering.