This is the source of the nuclear energy public-education website whatisnuclear.com. The site was founded in 2007 and has been built over the years. It is now on github to encourage collaboration with other nuclear experts who want to contribute to public education. More about us.

We welcome pull requests for basic fixes and small changes of any kind. If you want to contribute something major, it's best to contact us first to discuss the content and tone. We definitely want stuff from you but don't want you to spend a bunch of time on something that we don't think is right for our site. All contributions you make will retain your copyright but you will grant whatisnuclear.com a irrevocable and perpetual license to use it. It will also be licensed CC-BY-NC.

We look forward to working with you!

The site is built with Jekyll, which converts the source material you see here into the actual HTML that gets pushed live. Some of our pages here are in Markdown and others are still in HTML (we're slowly converting to Markdown to make collaborating/editing easier). At the moment, not everything needed to render the page is in this git repository (we excluded some third-party dependencies like fonts and themes) so you may have trouble rendering it at first. But if you had all the dependencies, you could just run:

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll build

or

bundle exec jekyll serve

you can test out your changes before submitting them.