Does it exist? Does anyone know where I could find it?

Or is there a derivation going from de Broglie wavelength to microscopic cross section?

Any insights on Centrus Energy? I’m wondering about a job with them, especially as they are getting back into uranium enrichment in the US. If anyone has experience with them, I would love to hear thoughts.

I don’t know if asking about a specific company is allowed, but I couldn’t find rules

Hi everyone, I am a big believer in nuclear energy and one day hope to become a nuclear engineer, but since I’m only a teenager (going to college next year) there’s not much I can do. Any suggestions on how I can get a head start or be more involved?

Hey everyone,

I'm a Nuclear Engineer an Aerospace Firm making $195k in Seattle.

Every time I go to a bar, party, or any social event in general, I try my best to avoid telling people what I do. Every time I tell a furry (male or female) I'm an nuclear engineer they start hitting on me.

Last week I went to a friend's birthday party. Told his brother I was an nuclear engineer. He kept asking me "can you cause a reactivity excursion with your control rod?" and "can I be your fast breeder reactor?" in a flirtatious manner.

This is a recurring problem. It's gotten so bad that I tell furries that I’m an industrial engineer so they will stop hitting on me all the time.

Any advice on how to stop attracting so many furries as an nuclear engineer?

Hello everyone, I would like to know what you think about the work that NuScale Power is doing, and if it can have a future impact on the industry Or it’s still very far away ? I appreciate your comments

Hi all, I am bit on a rush and I need your help.

I am preparing an introductory lecture to the course on fatigue for my students. I want to start with the history of fatigue and show: (i) how standards and engineers came up with solutions after catastrophic failures and (ii) how regulations now are so developed that they regulate specific design approaches like leak before failure, redundancy, ..... Can anyone tell me the exact name of the ASME standard regulating the leak-before-failure design of pressure vessels? I tried using chat GPT, and it came up with ASME BPV section XI. Is that right? I have no access to the ASME standards at the moment.

thank you all <3

Hey, I’m 23. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I quit college for business in my first semester like 5 years ago.

I had a 3.7 GPA in high school.

Since quitting college, I tried starting a few businesses, I worked a lot of sales jobs. Nothings worked and that’s okay because I’ve felt this whole time that I need to do something with my life that actually helps the earth.

I want to work in renewable energy because if humanity has any chance against climate change we will need renewable energy on our side!

I feel like that would be a life well spent working any position in this field or in solar engineering, or any renewable energy field.

It will pay dividends for millions of years if we can correct climate change.

How can I get started in this field and also what does the job market look like for nuclear engineers in the USA? Or just in the world in general, I’d be willing to move.

To be clear I absolutely would refuse to work any job that isn’t directly helping renewable energy. So if you guys have other suggestions for other fields that have a better chance at working in renewable energy that would be okay as well.

I heard there is a company working on modular nuclear power systems that fit inside shipping cargo containers. That would be awesome to work for. I know some energy companies in US are also starting to utilize nuclear, and government is helping that happen. Working there would be even more awesome. Are these jobs actually available to people with PHD and experience in nuclear engineering? Anyone here with a job like this?

My son is down to two options. Each is very different locations and styles so need of opinions of the differences, pros and cons of each of their Nuclear Engineering programs. Both are R1 with national laboratories close by.

If you have attended, experience with - classes? professors? internship opportunities? Job placement?

I dont know if this is the right place to ask but maybe some of you will take your time and help me. So at the university we were solving problem where we had a long infinite in y direction plane which is origin of neutrons and it was put inside of a polyethylene with some finite dimension in x direction which are not relevant for my question. We were using the differential equation -D∇²Φ+ΣΦ=s.. We said that Φ must be Φ= Aexp(-x/L) where L=sqrt(D/Σ) and we said that flux or Φ is 0 at the end of polyethylene. We used also equation for neutron current density where we said j=-D∇Φ and as it shows the current density in x direction was not 0 at the end of polyethylene. I get the math behind it why current isnt 0 but I dont understand it from physical explanation because we defined neutron flux as number of neutrons that pass through region of 1cm² and current as net flow through same region. It is not intuitive to me. Any analogies how should i look at the problem?

Hello everyone, sorry if this post breaks any rule of the subreddit, and for my bad English.

I'm looking for intervenants for a small interview on the job of nuclear engineer for a university project about the job we'd like to do after our studies. Where you're from and for how long you have been working is not important as I'd like to have very different profiles!

I have a google form ready and it should only take about 5-10 min to answer the questions (you don't have to answer to all of them), I'll send it by dm as I don't know if I can share links here.

Thank you so much for reading and I wish you a nice day!

I will soon have a masters degree in nuclear engineering concentrating in nuclear weapons and effects. As such, I’m not really getting anything on power reactors and I assume this curriculum would not translate well to a non-defense application of nuclear engineering. Is there any online graduate certificate programs that focus primarily in reactor theory, design, and maintainability that would be more beneficial for a civilian use application? Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m currently a senior in high school who is planning on majoring in nuclear engineering. I have been accepted to both UW and GaTech’s NRE programs but I’m having trouble making a choice.

The main reason is that as a Wisconsin resident, instate tuition seems like a good deal, but Georgia Tech has more renown for engineering than Madison does.

Is GaTech worth an extra 20k per year? U.S News ranked Madison higher for NRE but if I change my major GaTech beats it out. I don’t really care about the rating, but Madison does have a reactor while GaTech doesn’t which is a plus.

Do a lot of nuclear engineers go for a graduate degree? If so, it might be worth saving some money for that.

Idk, it’s just that I didn’t expect to get accepted to GaTech and I’d feel bad trying it down. I toured and it really is a great school. At the same time, I don’t want a heap of debt that is both avoidable and not worth it.

What are your guys’s thoughts? I’m interested to hear what people in the field think.

Part of me thinks the schools won’t really effect my prospects if I put the work in

Thanks

I am needing to speak to a nuclear engineer to see the viability of an idea that could revolutionize colonization of the moon, communications with mars, energy production in space. Through my own estimated and information I was able to "create" a theoretical system I assumed would be 70-90% efficient using RTG Modules, not a RTG system and a few other things I won't mention here. I had ChatGpt do some math for me and it estimated it at a 100% efficiency rate, this is mind boggling, here's where it gets WILD, you would require no additional power source. I estimate that the actual rate would be about 97% efficiency which would be a near perfect and fully profitable system that's self sufficient and contained. I know, this sounds unreal, but in theory it makes sense, the math helps solidify the concept a bit more but again there's a lot of logistics that could be ironed out. I hope somebody will take me seriously and be interested collaborating on the idea. My goal is to reach Elon Musk. This could all be done within the next 5 years. Less with the right funding. I would never end my own life<< Adding this for my own safety.

Hi,

I have been admitted into master of nuclear engineering at Polimi , If anyone would shear his overall experience studying this program I would appreciate it . also would you recommend to have accommodation near the Bovisa campus or elsewhere.

Hello, I'm an undergrad ECE major with a couple of summaries published with the American Nuclear Society conferences and over a year of experience as an undergrad research assistant in nuclear engineering.

I'm about to graduate and have decided I want to pursue a career in nuclear. I'd love to go to grad school but my gpa is about a 2.75, so my hopes arent too high. I understand that there is the NETL in austin, but cant really find any other startups, or private companies in the area for entry level jobs. National labs are pretty much a no-go due to gpa. Any advice on securing a job??

Hello I was recently accepted into Texas A&M for nuclear engineering and was wondering what some career paths are. It seemed from my research that there is a small spectrum of jobs that an undergraduate can get. Is this true?

Hi, I plan to pursue a master's degree in Nuclear Engineering. Which is better, the US or the EU? I See many collaborative efforts in EU nuclear energy programs, with institutes and industries coming together to develop the curriculum. I can say the same about the US as well, their Schools are doing great, but I'm not very sure if they are actively advocating for nuclear power or no, unlike the EU.

Any feedback or reviews on the Institute Polytechnique de Paris masters programme? I like their curriculum

I have come across the Innoenergy and EU master programme in Nuclear Energy, any review on this programme? they have a good online presence and an attractive curriculum with KTH Royal Inst., Grenoble Alpes, and Entrepreneurship courses, is it really promising?

I'm planning on getting a nuclear engineering degree, and have a mandatory programming class, that's my hardest semester so I'm taking some programming in my AS before I transfer, what are some programming languages you would recommend besides FORTRAN (that's my 1st choice but I don't think my cc offers it)

I’m not a nuclear engineer but want to be when I am older. The area that I specifically want to work on would be RTG’s but I do not know if that is a active field of study or what that would be called. If anyone can answer that would be great.

I was thinking to the point where the uranium solution doesnt require anymore active cooling compared to spent fuel having to stay in the pool water in nuclear stations for up to 5years +

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I'm in the STEM track in 12th grade and I'm about to graduate 2 months from now. I recently find myself getting intrigued more and more by nuclear engineering as I research about it during my free time. I believe the ongoing pursuit for nuclear fusion energy is promising contrary to popular belief. That's why I'm thinking of taking the path to becoming a nuclear engineer in hopes of someday helping that project come into fruition despite how challenging it is. However, I don't know where to start. My country(Philippines), to my knowledge, does not offer much opportunities in the nuclear field. Not even top universities here offer nuclear engineering courses. That's why I'm looking for anyone who could answer my following questions:

• Is the nuclear engineering field abroad open to students like me? Considering that educational standards vary in particular nations • What steps can I take in achieving my dream? Any essential courses and programs I should go for? • Any other tips or suggestions I could take note of?

All answers will be deeply appreciated. :)

If i were to major in a more generalized engineering field and minor in nuclear engineering would there be a significant difference in ability to get a job in nuclear engineering after graduating compared to majoring in it?(I'm a junior in HS and am pretty sure i want to do nuclear engineering but not committed)

I was accepted to a couple universities with ABET accredited nuclear engineering programs for this Fall and I am curious as to whether jobs care what college you get your degree from (both for positions in the US and other nations). For instance, I am highly considering University of New Mexico, as I have a good scholarship there so it would be financially easier for me, but I know it is ranked on the lower end. I want to make sure I can get a job after graduation. Thanks in advance.

A friend of mine brought up using nuclear energy to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and pumping it into the ground (and then it can eventually turn into coal or something). The main idea was removing it from the atmosphere as a solution to global warming. Aside from the politics, is this scientifically possible?

I'm thinking of making a hard science-fiction video game that involves nuclear-powered individual vehicle. Think something along the lines of a jetpack of a GI Joe Cobra flight pod. I want to have a rough idea of how big and heavy the powerpack would be and what its capabilities would be.

Presume that the safety and environment concerns linked to nuclear are not relevant.

The nuclear material can be whatever you want and as enriched as you want, short of uncontrollably exploding. The other materials, the electronics and software can be as good as you expect them to be in 20 years.

What is the minimum size and weight of a nuclear-powered air vehicle with a payload of a couple hundred kilograms and a thrust-to-weight ratio of at least 1.00?