[ RadSafe ] Nuclear Education

Fri Mar 2 21:06:40 CST 2012

Radsafe,

      I will note here that UMass/Lowell is one of  the few schools (USA) 
that still has a Van de Graaff
accelerator and a working reactor, all on the same campus.  And a  Health 
Physics program in the
northeastern USA that is still training MS and PhD level Health  Physicists.

     Joe Preisig

In a message dated 3/1/2012 10:56:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
corinne.mancevice at yale.edu writes:

UMass  Lowell has a Masters Degree in Energy Engineering with a Nuclear  
Option
http://www.uml.edu/engineering/chemical/Programs/graduate_energy.html

Corinne  Mancevice
Sr. Health Physicist

Yale University Environmental  Health & Safety
135 College Street, Suite 100
New Haven, CT  06510
Office: (203) 737-4754
www.yale.edu/ehs 

-----Original  Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu  
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Jerry Cohen
Sent:  Wednesday, February 29, 2012 7:58 PM
To: The International Radiation  Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Nuclear  Education

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

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From: "Brennan,  Mike  (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
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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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-----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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