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Deadly plutonium is leaking uncontrollably from the Fukushima. Tests show that both the land and seawater around the reactor are contaminated, with no projected end in sight. Based on the readings and observation of damage, fuel rods may have experienced a 70-80% meltdown.
Diagram of Fukushima Projected Radioactive Leak Path at:
http://fairewinds.com/content/projected-radioactive-leak-path
Read how are high levels of radioactive water might be getting out of the Fukushima 1, 2, and 3 Containment Buildings. Fairewinds believes that even if the nuclear reactors have not melted down, radioactively contaminated water is leaking out of the reactors and containment buildings.
Boiling Water Reactors (BWR’s), like Fukushima, have dozens of holes in the bottom of the nuclear reactor because BWR control rods enter the reactor from the bottom, unlike Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR’s) where the control rods enter from the top.
* U.S. experts: significant water contamination in Japan *
Nuclear and environmental scientists in the United States darkened their assessment of the risks markedly on Monday after operators at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant said that highly radioactive water has entered underground concrete tunnels extending beyond the reactor.
Sea water and fresh water used to cool the reactors, critically damaged by Japan’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and spent fuel pools at the plant have been put in storage tanks there. But reports indicate these tanks are full or over-flowing with tainted water, experts said.
“It’s just hard to see how this won’t result in significant contamination of, certainly, sea water,” said Edwin Lyman, a physicist and expert on nuclear plant design at the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists.
“There will be dilution, some of that will be reconcentrated, but I don’t think this can be sugar-coated at this point.”
Union of Concerned Scientists web site: http://www.ucsusa.org/
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Fairewinds Associate’s chief nuclear power engineer, Arnie Gundersen updates events at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant on Tuesday March 29.
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Dec
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Heather MacLean talks about her job as a Nuclear Engineer for Idaho National Laboratory.
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Dec
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I’m currently working on a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering. I’ve heard many great things about the Navy’s nuclear program, and I want to attempt to become an officer in the military. I’ve wanted to be in the Marine Corps for quite some time, but I don’t know what I can offer the Marine Corps with nuclear engineering. Is there a place for a nuclear engineer in the Marine Corps?
I’m really just guessing, but the Navy would probably assign you to one of it’s programs anyway, even if you became a Marine officer. There is a lot of intergration between these two services anyway. Marine and Navy pilots serve together aboard carriers. There are many instances where both services meld together.
The fact is, the Marine Corps is part of the Navy, so it’s not unusual for two to work together. The fact is, the Marine Corps probably does not have nuclear engineering programs whereas the Navy certainly does have them.
Dec
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Controversial expert witness and former nuclear industry CEO Arnie Gundersen talks about current events as well as reflecting on his path from senior vice president of Nuclear Energy Services, with involvement with 70 nuclear power plants, to blacklisted whistleblower, sued for defamation and losing his home in the process.
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Dec
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I just wanted to know if it was really hard to get a job as a nuclear engineer because im thinking of majoring in this field, but i dont want to be looking for jobs for weeks, so i just wanted to know, is it a good idea to become a nuclear engineer or any engineer at the fact?
No, it is not hard getting a job for a nuclear engineer. Right now, my company has been looking to hire two nuclear engineers for over two years and no one has accepted our offers. (Maybe we need to cough up a few more dollars?)
Anyway, getting a job as an engineer depends more on your ability to get the job done. Getting through school depends on your intelligence and your ability to get your homework done and pass exams. In the real world, getting and keeping a job depends on your ability to make something happen. Far too often, really smart people will get jobs in technical fields and then spend all day analyzing data and obtaining more data, but never actually accomplishing anything. This kind of attitude is a major obstacle to getting and keeping a job.
Please also keep in mind that being a nuclear engineer is a huge amount of paperwork that college doesn’t necessarily prepare you for. I have been a nuclear engineer for over 17 years and the highest level math I have ever used on the job is algebra and trigonometry. So, in school you will learn how to do linear algebra, three dimensional integral calculus and vector calculus, but you probably won’t use that information in your job. Instead, you will find yourself explaining physics and chemistry to english majors and history majors because they control the budgets.
Good luck.
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Nov
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For my career and post secondary research for Chemistry, I was asked to research how many % of nuclear engineer graduates get jobs. And could you please add additional info please? Thank you very much
im not sure of the % but the NRC does hire a lot of nuke-E’s. Along with the utilities. otherwise theres lots of jobs that will take just about any engineering degree. i say go for the NRC, its a great gov job.
Nov
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Controversial expert witness and former nuclear industry CEO Arnie Gundersen talks about current events as well as reflecting on his path from senior vice president of Nuclear Energy Services, with involvement with 70 nuclear power plants, to blacklisted whistleblower, sued for defamation and losing his home in the process.
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Nov
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For a project i need to interview a nuclear engineer and it must be someone in the feild not someone training to become a nuclear engineer. Also it can be a retired nuclear engineer or a professor with experience.
you can do it on yahoo answer.
Go for CR4 forum.
Wikki answer is another option.
You can browse some web-link like:
http://www.eng-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=466
http://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=106
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/f-106.html