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Comments on: Not your average summer camp: Teens operate nuclear reactor at Missouri S&T https://news.mst.edu/2025/08/not-your-average-summer-camp-teens-operate-nuclear-reactor-at-missouri-st/ Your source for the latest from Rolla Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:49:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: Beverly Taber https://news.mst.edu/2025/08/not-your-average-summer-camp-teens-operate-nuclear-reactor-at-missouri-st/#comment-539634 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:02:51 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=53948#comment-539634 An excellent summer camp & recruiting tool for future S& T students.

]]> By: Samantha Blake https://news.mst.edu/2025/08/not-your-average-summer-camp-teens-operate-nuclear-reactor-at-missouri-st/#comment-536763 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:28:28 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=53948#comment-536763 This is absolutely astounding! Offering high school students hands-on access to a nuclear reactor for direct operation sounds like an incredibly rare and impactful learning experience the youth can take with them for years, possibly inspiring future careers in such a vital field.

It must be fascinating to see these young people engage with something so technologically advanced and typically considered exclusive. I’m especially curious how the Missouri S&T team simplifies the core physics involved so high schoolers can grasp the fundamentals clearly.

Also, for future camps, what kind of safety training or preliminary coursework do the students undergo to prepare them for managing tasks on a reactor? And are most involved teens driven by a passionate interest in nuclear science, or exploring it as a new realm of STEM?

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