Nuclear energy education creates more favorable perception

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Nuclear energy education creates more favorable perception

The nuclear engineering bachelor’s, master’s and later minor were eliminated due to declining interest and dwindling job opportunities, as previously reported by the Daily.  The nuclear engineering program was initiated at Iowa State in the 1950s, and after years of offering programming, the program was shut down. “They’re not building any more plants and they are downsizing others … it’s a tough market,” an Iowa State professor said in 1996.  I…