Some updates to whatisnuclear.com
By Dr. Nick Touran, Ph.D., P.E., 2018-02-02, Reading time: 1 minute
Old content revival
We revived some of the older content that never made the transition to our mobile-friendly site and a reorganization of the top menu. You’ll find a lot more to explore in there.
Github source
We’re announcing the whatisnuclear github site where we will be storing the source of this entire webpage as well as a collection of outreach material that people build. The intent here is both to make it easier for other nuclear experts to collaborate with us and add/modify/update content and to have a common place to store and retrieve outreach material to help teach people about nuclear energy.
New license
We’ve licensed the site CC-BY-NC, which means you can share and copy the content as long as you credit us and link to us, but you can’t directly sell it.
New site generator
We’ve started using the Jekyll static site generator behind the scenes here. This will help us change and maintain the site better, and it allows some neat new features, such as little navigation indicators in the top menu and back/next buttons at the bottom of each page to help readers know where they are. It will be easier for us to keep pages consistent now. We also added this blog section.
About Dr. Nick Touran, Ph.D., P.E.
Nick Touran is a nuclear engineer with expertise in advanced nuclear reactor design, reactor development, and the history of nuclear power. After getting a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, he spent 15 years at TerraPower in Seattle working on core design, business development, software development, and configuration management. He is now a consultant involved in advising and assisting numerous reactor development and deployment efforts. He is also a licensed professional engineer in Nuclear Engineering.
Nick has been active in public education around nuclear since 2006 as the founder of whatisnuclear.com. He has spoken at numerous institutions, schools, and public events, and was once featured on NPR’s Science Friday. Recently, he has coordinated the digitization of over 45 historical nuclear films.