For episode 31 of Gener8, we encourage you to utilize our visual stream as we're excited to share a documentary film that hasn't been seen in decades but is now available to us all thanks to the efforts of this episode's guest, Dr. Nick Touran. Nick is the founder and main force behind the WhatIsNuclear.com website, the Manager of Digital Engineering at Terrapower, and a man on a mission to save and revive some of the history around many of the amazing activities that took at the beginning of the nuclear age. Veriten was honored to sponsor the digitization of one of these films and Nick discussed with us how he got caught up in such an activity, why he founded his website, and what he does at at Terrapower before we dove into the film for the first time together. The film tells a bit of the story around the Armour research reactor, America's first privately-owned nuclear reactor which went online in 1956 on the campus of an Illinois university for research purposes. Nick also shared some lessons we could take from the film that are applicable to today's nuclear deployment paradigm and also shared his ambitious around further digitization efforts he plans to undertake.  

For a link directly to the film Veriten sponsored the digitization of, please click here.