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Nuclear engineering Essay Ruff Draft By: Paul Matthews
What is the overview of nuclear engineering? And what makes you want to write about
this profession? The overview of Nuclear Engineering is to protect the health and
safety of the public, they have to comply with a lot of regulations issued by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) and oversight organizations. What made me want to
write about this profession was that I want to major in mechanical engineer when I go
off to college. Nuclear engineering was very close and is a branch off of mechanical
engineering and it intrigued me to write an essay on the special career .
This essay is going to be about the great career of nuclear engineering,First we are
going to touch on the topic of the history of nuclear engineering. In my second topic
we are going to touch on the topic of what the career of nuclear engineering is about
and what they do. My finale topic is going to be about the process of becoming a
nuclear engineer and giving you all steps to becoming one .
The History of Nuclear Engineering

What is the history behind nuclear engineering? According to What is Nuclear
Engineering by Jim Lucas the nuclear age began in 1939, when two German
physicists, Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassman, Split a uranium atom, Continuing their
research, Lise Meitner, an Austrian - born physicist who had fled to Sweden after
Hitler ’ s invasion of her country, realized that the split had also released energy, in a
letter signed by several scientists, including Albert Einstein, that Germany could
develop a powerful weapon, the United States launched the Manhattan Project, a top-
secret endeavor to create an atomic bomb, after this successful effort, the country
dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 .
After the war, physicists explored peaceful uses of nuclear energy, The United States
established several national laboratories, including Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Lawrence