At Reed College, Nuclear Education That’s Really ‘Hands-On’
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Reed College in Portland, Oregon, is home to the only nuclear reactor in the world run primarily by undergraduates. SciFri producers got a tour of Reed’s “swimming pool” reactor from undergraduate reactor operator Ilana Novakoski, who also joined Ira onstage in Portland to explain what’s behind the Reed Reactor’s blue glow.
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Ilana Novakoski
Ilana Novakoski is student and reactor operator at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
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@annieminoffAnnie Minoff is a producer for The Journal from Gimlet Media and the Wall Street Journal, and a former co-host and producer of Undiscovered. She also plays the banjo.