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
