As part of its ongoing commitment to decolonization, MIT agreed to turn over its experimental nuclear reactor to representatives of the Wampanoag Nation after it was discovered that the facility occupies land that was once a sacred indigenous burial ground.

Built in the 1950s, the reactor has been used to conduct materials science and energy research by generations of faculty and students from MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering. Under the transfer agreement, Dr. David Shane Lowry, resident shaman at MIT’s Indigenous Studies Program, will direct all future research.

“We look forward to using the reactor to explore indigenous ways of knowing such as two-eyed seeing, ancestor spirit infusion, and indigiqueer dark matter,” Dr. Lowry explained as he took time out from his most recent smudging ceremony ensuring the success of MIT’s First Nations Launch Team.

The reactor will be staffed by personnel trained at the Wampanoag Casino. Terrified neighbors worried about safety were told to repent their white-supremacist ways and offer sacrifices to the Great Spirit.

Nicole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the 1619 project, who has been working on her revisionist history of nuclear engineering, hailed the transfer as the best way to rectify the crimes committed by the pilgrims when they destroyed the deerskin-shielded nuclear reactors built by America’s noble natives.

MIT past president L. Rafael Reif agreed to come out of retirement and officiate at the transfer ceremony, promising to wear his hair shirt.