Nuclear engineering Ph.D. grads at the highest level in over 50 years

[RIPBILLYMAYS]

https://www.kitco.com/news/2019-05-28/Number-Of-Nuclear-Engineering-Graduates-Spikes.html

The strong dip after 1978 directly corresponds to the TMI accident, followed by Chernobyl. Fukushima oddly enough didn't have much a negative effect by comparison.

https://public.tableau.com/views/ORISEInfographic-NuclearEngineeringEnrollmentsDegrees-MobileFriendly/NEDegrees-1966to2015?:embed=y&:embed_code_version=3&:loadOrderID=0&:display_count=yes&:origin=viz_share_link

[Froztshock]

I'm not too surprised, shit's profitable, especially if you end up working for the US Military/Navy. I remember in my freshman year basically some Navy reps marched in as guest speakers during one of my introductory engineering courses and basically up and said "Yeah, we'll pay your way entirely through college, full ride and everything, if you just switch to nuclear engineering now."

Granted, you had to maintain above a certain GPA and it came with the oh-so-important caveat that you have to do a tour of duty, but I would've been tempted were it not for the fact that I just don't have it in me to get through an engineering degree that I don't have a keen personal interest in.

[RIPBILLYMAYS]

Probably NUPOC, the navy will pay you 4k/mo while still in college until you graduate. I applied for it and only qualified for submarine/ship service so I declined (I wanted to do reactor instructor but GPA was too low). If you can accept what they offer its a really good deal.

[GHOST!!!!]

http://puu.sh/DzAha/85ccd14c2e.png

He gonna Engineer the Nuclear shit out of you, ain't a damn thing you gon' do.

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

the school i'm attending offers a nuclear reactor certification course to all students and i'm considering taking it

[MrWasabi]

It's really not, yeah the offer you a lot but quality of life is terrible, that's why the offer you huge reenlistment bonuses. The school itself expects you to pick up an large volume of knowledge in a very short time for each school and the pipeline for schools is fairly lenghty, nuke school has a pretty high failure rate. If you can't keep up you are dropped from the program and are forced into a non-nuclear rate the Navy needs people in without your input, oh and you have to pay the Navy back all the bonuses and program money you got in full for failing to meet contract obligations.

Don't get me wrong, I know a number of Nukes they're all great people but their job sucks ass.

[RIPBILLYMAYS]

My school has that too. Nothing makes you stand out more at ~20 years old than saying you can run a nuclear reactor.

[Joazzz]

A reactor may have cadmium rods to control fission rates, but he's got nerves of steel.