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Add on to my physics degree?

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alphadude:
avoid the tech route if you can. its hard to get out of it when you go down that path. apply at Los Alamos, take that route then go into safety analysis (not osha safety), but crit safety. big shortage of people there.

Khak-Hater:
For the nuke field, you probably picked the wrong SEC school to attend.  LSU, UF and UT offer NE degrees.  You might be able to qualify for in-state tuition rates given that your state schools don't offer an NE degree.  I remember that KY and TN had such an agreement [since neither UK or UL offer an NE degree].  If you're too close to graduation to consider a transfer, then you might want to consider finishing your physics degree and going to grad school and getting an MS in NE. 

If that's not something you'd be interested in, then the US Navy is a wonderful way to get hands on Nuclear experience.  With your physics degree, you'd be qualified to serve as a zero [a khak, an officer], although you'd get more hands-on experience as a blueshirt [enlisted].  In either case, anyone [zero or blueshirt] in the Navy nuke program is going to get more hands on experience than a desk engineering job.

You can also break into the nuke field through the civilian sector with your physics degree (e.g., as an operator, licensing specialist, engineering specialist, quality specialist, etc.).  In your area, I'd try EOI instead of TVA, but if you really want to make it in, then I'd try everyone in the country.  Someone will hire you, then when you get some experience, you can try to move back closer to home if you want. 

Good Luck,

MGM

grantime:
I have a physics degree .  It got my foot in door and has given me a good background for HP.  At least the Southern Co plants require a BS in a hard science for a house slot.   Physics will get you in either HP or ENV. 

nuke_girl:
Texas A & M has an  operating  reactor for research...have you considered a masters?..or doing an internship?

Call Linda Morris at 800 792 TSTC for info..she currently heads ups the environmental health and safety dept as well as being a health physicist. She also is chairman of education for the South Texas chapter  of the Health Physics society and she is on the alumni board at A & M..she can defo direct you in the right path anddddd is just really nice.

Good Luck
Kathleen

alphadude:
while "health physics" sounds related to your degree, its somewhat a splinter and is more closely related to Industrial hygiene than classical physics. (determine exposures and reduce risk). There are a few Monte Carlo HP types but you can almost count them on both hands and feet.  Now if you go for your masters in HP, TAKE THE CHP immediately after school. that will marry your classical physics with HP.

I assume you have a degree in classical physics. Unless you are just bound and determined, you would be more useful in the engineering branch, doing FSAR, Crit Safety, Design and analysis, Fuel management, core configuration, weapons design etc.

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