Glamorous in the 1950s and 1960s, a nuclear engineering career had begun to look like a bad choice by 1980.
Glamorous in the 1950s and 1960s, a career in nuclear engineering had begun to look like a bad choice in 1980.
In the late 1980s, the firm's main industrial businesses defence electronics, power generation, refrigerated transport, nuclear engineering and so on were technologically sound.
They had chosen the career of nuclear engineering when it was a red-hot field for people of scientific bent, just as biotechnology is today.
But there are still a number of hurdles to be cleared before energy supplier EDF and the nuclear engineering firm Areva can begin construction.
They had chosen the career of nuclear engineering when this was a red hot field for people of scientific bent, just as nanotechnology or biotechnology might be today.
D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington.
Those estimates themselves are iffy, since nobody knows yet where the leaks are, says Hajimu Yamana, a professor of nuclear engineering at Kyoto University and head of a government panel studying how to dismantle the plant.
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"You have to get the recirculation system up and functioning so they can cool that water in the normal way, " said Gary Was, a nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan and a CNN consultant.
Rather than worrying about what radioactivity will come to the U.S., "it's more important that we help the victims from the tsunami and the earthquake right now, " said Peter Hosemann of the nuclear engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Such technical difficulties shouldn't prevent Tepco from taking measures to make sure the equipment at Fukushima Daiichi is working, said Tadashi Narabayashi, a nuclear-engineering professor at Hokkaido University.
The most labile European country on matters nuclear has, not surprisingly, been Germany, where great engineering and anti-nuclear sentiment have long coexisted uneasily.
CKD, a big engineering concern, and with the Rez nuclear-research institute.
For the best nuclear safety you need not just good planning and good engineering.
Caithness Solutions comprises of Cheshire-registered engineering firm Amec and Salt Lake City-based nuclear services company EnergySolutions.
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"Most people in the nuclear industry are in the autumn of their careers, " observes Kevin Thomas, chief executive of engineering firm Babcock's support services, which will be working with Hitachi.
China Guangdong Nuclear will be the majority owner and operator of the first phase, and will take the lead role on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC).
Its services include engineering, decontamination, radioactive waste processing, and removal, transportation, and disposal of waste for closed nuclear power plants and former weapons sites.
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