How Similar Is Mechanical Engineering With A Concentration In Fluid Mechanics Compared To Nuclear Engineering?
Posted by admin on November 26, 2009 under Fluid Mechanics | 
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right now I am in graduate school studing mechanical engineering with a concentration in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics but as career I want to work in a nuclear power plant. I understand a lot of nuclear engineering or reactor engineering is fluid mechanics but how much and what are the biggest differences
Drew F said,
Nuclear engineering in nuclear power plant deals with the energy generated by fission reaction (the neutronics part) and energy transfer to generate electricity (the thermalhydraulics part). In nuclear engineering you will be taught both parts, so you will have broad knowledge of what happens inside a nuclear power plant. But if you have a degree in mechanical engineering with concentration in fluid mechanics than that would not be any problem for you working in the thermalhydraulics part. You just need a little effort to learn the neutronics part.
Jordan T said,
Nuclear engineering and nuclear power generation aren’t really the same thing. I think you’re probably on the right track as you are. If you want to work in the power plant itself, the ME degree will be worth a lot more to you. If you want to go into fission and fusion research, that’s when you would want a nuclear engineering degree.
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