From The Topeka Capital-Journal

Job market glowing for K-State students who work the reactor

By Matt Moline
Special to The Capital-Journal

MANHATTAN -- For more than four decades, Kansas State University's nuclear reactor has generated a succession of valuable scientific research projects -- from neutron radiography to food irradiation experiments.

But in the last two years, the facility has become known on campus for another kind of generation -- job generation for graduates of KSU's department of mechanical and nuclear engineering.

According to reactor manager Mike Whaley, the national demand for nuclear engineers could easily double in the next 10 years -- up from the 500 job openings that will be available to new engineering graduates nationally this spring. Read the full text of the article

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