<p>What levels of radiation is one exposed to working as a nuclear engineer? Does this career choice shorten one’s life expectancy?</p>
<p>Nuclear energy is one of the safest methods to creating energy around… take that for what it’s worth. EH&S is something engineers always concern themselves with. So, to answer your question bluntly; the level of safety will depend on the quality of the engineering.</p>
<p>There are government imposed regulations on how much radiation you can be exposed to in any one year, and they are very low.</p>
<p>In a nuclear power plant, the nuclear engineers rarely receive ANY radiation above normal background. The technicians, operators, laborers who do the physical work in the plant are the group of individuals that receive the radiation exposure. In general, working in a nuclear power plant and receiving the amount of radiation that a typical engineer would receive would have absolutely ZERO effect on your life expectancy. Also, nuclear plants are safer than pretty much any industry on the face of the earth when comparing ISAR rates and OSHA injury rates.</p>
<p>Short answer: Yes</p>
<p>Although people claims nuclear engineer job is safe, I do wonder why so many nuclear engineers in the age of 40+ seem to loose their hair… I wonder that’s due to radiation exposure.</p>
<p>people = government*
Can’t seem to edit with phone</p>
<p>Yeah, the phone version of the site does not allow for editing. Still, do you have evidence that the rate of hair loss in nuclear engineers is statistically greater than the rate of hair loss in the general population. I highly doubt there exists such a correlation.</p>
<p>Perhaps the gene that causes hair loss and thinness is the same gene that sparks a desire to study nuclear engineering.</p>
<p>Only joking of course, we won’t know that for sure for another ten years or so.</p>
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<p>Sorry for stupid joke. People seem to take it seriously.</p>