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I've done quite a bit of clean up on nuclear contamination sites and know a good bit about both fields.


The most viable route for a nuclear engineer these days is to get your degree then go into the Navy. This would be more of a reactor operations or rad safety track. The vast majority of people working in the private sector in this field are former Navy nukes.

The problem with nuclear engineers is that we're really not doing that much in the way of design or research. In the 1970's and 1980's, we were doing scads of it but it has really slowed down. There aren't many people out there doing it and there are even less job opening. A research position would almost certainly have to come as faculty at a major university or as an employee at one of the national laboratories.

On the specific subject of recycling nuclear waste, it depends on which waste streams you are talking about as to whether or not there is any work at all. Any work that is done in this field is done through Federal funding as it is just too expensive and riskey (from a proffit making perspective) for a private company to undertake such research. Again, you're talking national labs and universities.