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WYSE Camp Applications Open Now for Summer 2025!

Campers will explore NPRE through lectures and discussions, hands-on activities, computer programming and simulations, demonstrations, lab tours, and field trips. 

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Nuclear-Powered UIUC

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, is working on a project that would bring a microreactor to campus. 

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April Novak

Featured Faculty

April Novak

Assistant Professor

Prof. Novak's interests include multiphysics methods and applications, multiscale thermal-hydraulics, Monte Carlo transport methods, reactor design and analysis, and high-performance computing.