What does a Nuclear Engineer or a Health Physicist do?
Here is but a partial list of the jobs in high demand for nuclear engineers and health physicists:
- Constructing and operating nuclear power plants
- Designing, constructing, and operating advanced nuclear power plants
- Investigating and optimizing advanced nuclear fuel cycles
- Designing, constructing, and operating fusion reactors
- Analyzing and preparing for long-term energy security for this country and the world
- Designing, constructing, and operating advanced power systems for the US naval fleet
- Designing and constructing power systems for space exploration and propulsion
- Designing methods for securing, verifying, and productivity utilizing excess nuclear weapons material
- Developing arms control and nonproliferation technologies
- Expanding and improving the use of radionuclides in medicine
- Advancing medical imaging
- Providing new radiotherapy technologies
- Improving food safety using radiation pasteurization
- Remediating nuclear waste generated during the cold war
- Designing and constructing nuclear waste storage strategies and facilities
- Monitoring and remediating environmental exposures to radiation
- Helping to quantify risk from radiation exposure including nonionizing radiation
- Controling and monitoring the use of radioisotopes in industrial and medical facilities
- Regulating and auditing the use of radionuclides in industry, medicine, and research
- Designing improved transport methods for moving nuclear waste and useful isotopes
- Extending the operating life of present nuclear power plants
- Managing the use of radionuclides and nuclear fuel
- Providing technical expertise for use of radionuclides and nuclear fuel
- and many, many others