A fuel assembly for a nuclear reactor.
Good question and one I get all the time. The other links I’ve found on the internets do a good, but dry, job describing what career paths are available to nuclear engineers. I get this question a lot from prospective students, so I thought I would jot down the answer here.
Before we begin it is important to remember that with many, if not all, degrees, the discipline helps define the career but does not cast the graduate into an ineluctable career path. How many English majors do you know that write books for a living.
Also, it is important to keep in mind that the typical career is dependent on what degree level we are talking about. In most cases, when someone asks this question they want to know about a nuclear engineer with a bachelor’s degree, so that is where we will start after the jump.