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what is it like to work as a nuclear-engineer? I´m currently looking to go into this field and I want to hear what it is like?

i am a senior.

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Nuclear engineers don't all do the same thing, but they all spend a decent amount of time doing calculations. They might design a nuclear power system or calculate how much radioactive iodine to dose someone with. You need to be a "draw inside the lines" personality: it is not a field that allows for much creativity or bravado. In engineering you have to get things right the first time and be conservative, in contrast to science in which experimentation and frequent failure are the norm. I'll leave it to an actual nuclear engineer to give you a better answer, but I wanted to offer this general engineering answer in case nobody else replied! If you are creative and tolerate failure well, you might want to consider nuclear science / nuclear physics rather than nuclear engineering.
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