All Things Nuclear. Why I became a nuclear engineer. In celebration of the fact that I will be conducting my final defense for my doctorate in nuclear engineering next Friday, I wanted to change gears a little bit and take on a bit more of a personal subject.
Namely, I'd like to talk a little bit more about why I chose to go into nuclear engineering in the first place. Nuclear advocates like Suzy Hobbes and the Nuclear Literacy Project have spoken about the need to put a human face to nuclear engineering. My own hope here is to perhaps inspire a conversation among many nuclear professionals, each of whom have had their own path into nuclear energy, as both engineers and advocates.
Funding Nuclear Engineering Education: More on the Issues I recently had several excellent comments on my March 2, 2012 blog on funding for nuclear engineering education.
In that blog, I had expressed my dismay that DOE and NRC the 2013 Federal budget request had zeroed out funding for nuclear engineering education programs. Information about the incident at the Fukushima Nuclear Plants in Japan hosted by.