The Internet has become an indispensable part of the modern day education system. Burgeoning as a versatile communication medium, it allows further technological developments that may spread the reach of the existing experimental training infrastructure essential for nuclear engineering. Moreover, due to dwindling nuclear research reactor facilities, there exists a need to develop such webbased systems that can virtually access the reactor under operation. These systems should be inexpensive, easily installable, allow interactive audio/video communication as well as remote access (or sharing) of data in real-time. In an effort to make this a reality, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell (UML) [1] and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [2-4] are working towards developing and testing a distance reactor operations laboratory. Though the efforts started independently, the teams are now working together to ensure the best possible model for efficient outreach as part of the distance educational mission of the UML research reactor. Similar efforts are also underway at other universities [4].