Some college-bound students prioritize a university’s location or campus culture when choosing where to apply. Lorelai Haase had something else in mind: Her dream school needed to have a nuclear reactor.
Haase, an active-duty sailor in the U.S. Navy, works on nuclear reactors aboard aircraft carriers and submarines as a machinist in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. She’s also a freshman at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, majoring in nuclear engineering. (And yes, UW–Madison has a nuclear reactor on campus for teaching and research.)
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