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Specialties that change the job

• Reactor licensing

  Writing and defending safety cases to the federal regulator. Unglamorous, essential, and very well paid.

• Small modular reactors

  The new designs everyone is funding. Higher risk employers, more interesting work.

• Medical isotopes

  Reactors and accelerators that make the tracers used in hospital scans and cancer treatment.

• Decommissioning and waste

  Taking old plants apart safely. Decades of guaranteed work in it.