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Why isn't nuclear engineering as popular as EE or ME? It's easier and makes more money.

>> No.3746128
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3746128

because nuclear is going out of style. turns out you don't need the infinite energy from nuclear and the amount you get from solar is more than enough.

>> No.3746142

>>3746128
this will change if humanity gets its shit together by the way but right now we don't really do anything that requires energy other than maybe mining shit coins.

and even then, solar often overloads the grid and makes electricity prices go negative

>> No.3746149

>>3745814
Engineering as a whole isn't popular anymore among westerners, even STEM are less and less liked these days because you can make more money and in a quicker way by just going in finance or business and developping a bit of network instead of slaving on your science books, it's much less exhausting.

Second factor is that the science sectors are complexifying at rapid rate (example: the med school the boomers went and the med schools students go to these days are world apart in terms of harshness and material learnt, things like immunology or genetics weren't even taught in the 70s, new formation are harder).

Finally there is less and less discipline taught to kids in education, nuclear engineering is one of the most dryest field you can study outside of pure maths and physics/chemistry degrees, it asks either for pure passion or an iron discipline which most kids do not have after being educated by hippies.

>> No.3746163

>>3745814
Nuclear is SO 1945...

>> No.3746195

because cancer, also being near a radioactive substance scares the beejeezus out of people

>> No.3746227

also homer simpson working in a nuclear powerplant didnt help

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>>3746128
Yes, because the taxpayer pays for it at the end

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>>3746195
It doesn't really scare them, they just don't see the point doing it when you can make 15x the annual revenue with less work by going to Wall Street or the City while enjoying a greater lifestyle instead of living in a research plant or doing maintenance in buttfuck nowhere.

You see the guys who developped the molten salt reactors experiment or the rockets for the Appolo missions in the 60s and 70s? The are no americans of this caliber these days, all the brains who could have done it today have already moved toward service (banking, insurance, etc...).

Americans suck these days, that's why they get their shit rekt by the european/east asian industries and rely on corporate raiding/spying/brain drain/massive capital to keep their place, now the question is too know for how much longer it will last.

>> No.3746412

>>3745814
I think nuclear would be cool but ive been in love with RF since the first EM class i took

>> No.3747202

>>3745814
>nuclear engeniring
College?
it not real engineering, it worker for radioactive environment

>> No.3748278

>>3746128
No it's not? Wtf, Solar and Wind are horrible in Watts earned for the space they take in.

The only issue with nuclear is the waste, nothing else. If we can hydronuclear reactors everything else is obsolete.