{"id":4448,"date":"2014-06-23T06:07:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2014-06-23T06:07:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:07:11","slug":"science-friday-explores-reeds-nuclear-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2014\/06\/science-friday-explores-reeds-nuclear-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Friday Explores Reed&#8217;s &#8220;Nuclear Option&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio&#8217;s weekly science news show, <strong>Science Friday<\/strong>, came to Portland recently and spoke with <strong>Ilana Novakoski &#8217;16<\/strong> about <a title=\"Reed Reactor\" href=\"http:\/\/reactor.reed.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reed&#8217;s research reactor<\/strong><\/a>. Ilana was interviewed onstage by the show&#8217;s host, Ira Flatow, and also conducted an audio tour of reactor operations, the swimming pool, and the famous &#8220;blue glow&#8221; for Science Friday. The 12 minute segment aired on Science Friday on June 20, 2014 (<a title=\"At Reed College ... | Science Friday, June 20, 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/sciencefriday.com\/segment\/06\/20\/2014\/at-reed-college-nuclear-education-that-s-really-hands-on.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;At Reed College, Nuclear Education That\u2019s Really &#8216;Hands-On&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>). As Ilana told Ira, &#8220;When I first came here I was theater (major), um, if you work at a reactor long enough, though, you become a chem major.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio&#8217;s weekly science news show, Science Friday, came to Portland recently and spoke with Ilana Novakoski &#8217;16 about Reed&#8217;s research reactor. Ilana was interviewed onstage by the show&#8217;s host, Ira Flatow, and also conducted an audio tour of&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2014\/06\/science-friday-explores-reeds-nuclear-option\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Science Friday Explores Reed&#8217;s &#8220;Nuclear Option&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-students","category-exciting-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}