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exboyfil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 08:01 AM
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5. When I graduated from High School in 1981
My plan was to major in Nuclear Engineering at Purdue. During my Freshman year I switched to Mechanical Engineering. One of the best decisions of my life. My career would have been much more limited as would my options if I had stayed with Nuclear Engineering.

I have been against (or at least suspicious of nuclear power) for awhile now (especially after the Yucca Mountain decision to not store there). After this stuff stored onsite at each facility is not a solution.

I don't know much about Thorium reactors but maybe that is a better option.
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  -Nuclear chemistry PhD's peaked in 1971 bananas  Mar-22-11 03:18 AM   #0 
  - There's a 2-5 year latency before a PhD or BS is achieved  bananas   Mar-22-11 03:28 AM   #1 
  - When I graduated from High School in 1981  exboyfil   Mar-22-11 08:01 AM   #5 
     - Chemical Engineering was hot stuff at Purdue in 1980  Kolesar   Mar-22-11 11:57 AM   #6 
        - Yup - here's a chart of BS degrees in some energy-related engineering fields  bananas   Mar-23-11 04:50 AM   #13 
  - Yea, I remember that post, and it was wrong  Confusious   Mar-22-11 04:03 AM   #2 
  - Nope - new orders ended in 1978, around half were cancelled in the 70's  bananas   Mar-22-11 04:14 PM   #7 
     - greenpeace and many other groups were  Confusious   Mar-22-11 06:04 PM   #8 
        - Studying history can be informative  kristopher   Mar-22-11 06:21 PM   #9 
           - The more you post the same thing over and over, the truer it gets!  Confusious   Mar-22-11 06:24 PM   #10 
              - Do you understand how bias works?  kristopher   Mar-22-11 06:39 PM   #11 
                 - I understand very well how bias works  Confusious   Mar-22-11 06:47 PM   #12 
  - K&R America's dropped down in science graduates . n/t  Mimosa   Mar-22-11 04:21 AM   #3 
  - Some schools have shut down their nuclear engineering programs  somone   Mar-22-11 05:58 AM   #4 
 

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