My name is Katie Mummah. I'm a nuclear engineer, graduate student, and clean energy advocate. It’s nice to meet you.
When is the last time you engaged with the negative impacts or harms perpetuated by nuclear reactors or the nuclear fuel cycle? For many nuclear engineers and nuclear energy advocates, we primarly engage with these subjects during, or to prepare...
Nuclear engineers have to be communicators; the very name of our field invites curiosity and questioning. Yet many, maybe most, nuclear engineering students get no formal training in communicating science to the public, let alone a deep dive into the...
It was only when I landed in Vienna that I realized I had never traveled alone internationally. Many of my free weekends in the last few years have been spent exploring Wisconsin, New Mexico, Colorado (among other states), mostly alone....
It’s almost summer, by university standards at least, and for me summer means reading. I’ve been collecting radiation and nuclear-themed books for a few years, but I’ve read almost none of them during my busy semesters and internships.
When I press “brew” on my coffeemaker first thing in the morning, I never stop to wonder whether the coffeemaker is on and ready to pour into my mug. For many of us, electricity is just a fact of life....
