This program may be started at any campus and is completed at Penn State University Park.

Nuclear engineering is a broad discipline based on the natural laws governing radioactive decay, nuclear interactions including fission and fusion, and the interaction of radiation and matter. The nuclear engineer must be knowledgeable in energy removal and conversion, reactor theory, materials science, instrumentation and control, radioactive waste management, nuclear safety and chemistry.

Most Nuclear Engineering graduates are employed in the nuclear power industry, where the safety of nuclear power production is of great importance. Other graduates may enter the areas of industrial radioisotopes.

The B.S. in Nuclear Engineering is offered by Penn State's College of Engineering.

*Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD, 21202-4012; telephone, 410-347-7700.

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