The Indian government is taking up all possible steps to increase installed nuclear capacity and use it for the production of power also as the present government is aiming to provide power to all households by 2022. Nuclear engineers are engaged in the designing, construction as well as the operation of nuclear reactors. They play a vital role in determining how radiation and radioactive materials could be used for industrial, medical and scientific purposes. Nuclear engineers play an important role in designing and creating the processes, instrumentation, equipment and systems that contain nuclear materials used in different kinds of industries. Nuclear engineers are increasingly employed to oversee the construction of nuclear power plants and ensure that the nuclear reactor being correctly installed. They also see that nuclear fuel is loaded properly.

Job Profiles

Some job profiles for nuclear engineers are:

• Researchers

• Engineers

• Lectures

• Professors etc

RECRUITERS

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

Bruce Nuclear Generating Station

GMR Energy Limited

Indian Nuclear Society

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