[ RadSafe ] Nuclear Education

[Robert Bradley]

In Canada, the Royal Military College, Kingston Ontario has an active
nuclear engineering programme.  There are Health Physics/Medical Physics
programmes at McGill, McMaster, UOIT, etc.

-    -  RPB

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Jerry Cohen <jjc105 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Assuming an american high school graduate today wants to pursue a career in
>  nuclear power production, where would he/she go to receive the proper
> education?  Do any USA universities still have viable nuclear engineering
> programs? What about other countries?
> Jerry Cohen
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Brennan, Mike  (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) MailingList
> <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
> Sent: Wed, February 29, 2012 4:30:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] New Reactors
>
> It's actually worse than that.  The US Navy used to be a large source of
> nuclear
> trained professionals, with their policy of spending huge amounts of money
> training people, then having working conditions so dreadful that many got
> out
> after one or two enlistments/periods of obligation.  The Navy has
> decommissioned
> most of the nuclear powered vessels it once had, and I assume has narrowed
> the
> training pipeline accordingly.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Perle, Sandy
> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:07 PM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] New Reactors
>
> Joe,
>
> The issue as I see it (USA only, not the building going on in the rest of
> the
> world, i.e., China, India, etc.), is where are the workers going to come
> from,
> the construction workers (that will be a boon to the economy) but the
> professionals, the engineers, health physicists, all the individuals where
> attrition has been a factor and no new entrants into the job market, due
> to the
> nuclear hiatus. Many of the health physics programs are no longer in
> business,
> and those that are still offering programs, many are doing it through
> mechanical
> engineering programs. There is an estimated severe shortage of professional
> radiation protection specialists (as presented many times by Ralph
> Andersen,
> Nuclear Energy Institute. In addition to the staffing issues, what about
> all of
> the components needed, realizing that many of the manufacturing and parts
> companies closed don business when the USA ceased building new units after
> TMI.
>
>
> Georgia Power building 2 units is a good start, finally. Will the other
> utilities who talked about new units, I think they'll sit back and watch
> what
> happens, until there is more focus by the political systems as well as the
> financial systems.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sandy
>
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> Sander C. Perle
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of JPreisig at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:59 PM
> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] New Reactors
>
> Hey Radsafe:
>
>
>     From:    _jpreisig at aol.com_ (mailto:jpreisig at aol.com)
>
>
>     Hope you all are well.  So, for the next 5  years or so, will US
> energy/power companies sit back and watch the new Georgia nuclear reactors
> being
> built???  Or will  they get in on the Fun also and start to build their own
> reactors at the same time.????
>
>    Boy, the US nuclear industry could really start moving  again, there
> could
> be many jobs for construction people, health physicists, nuclear engineers
> etc.
>
>    What's going to happen????
>
>
>     Regards,    Joseph R. (Joe)  Preisig, PhD
>
> PS    It doesn't seem like a viable fusion energy/power  plant will come
> online in the next 5 years...
>
>
>
>
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