Preparing for a Nuclear Renaissance
November 25, 2024
“Public support for nuclear power is the highest its been in more than a decade,” the Los Angeles Times reports, with younger people especially seeing “a second renaissance.” For this shift to best succeed, Aditi Verma and Denia Djokić call for transforming nuclear engineering education. “Our vision for a new approach is grounded in long-standing calls for a bridging between the sciences and the humanities,” they write in Issues. “We need to stop separating the social from the technological, and imprint these insights into our education so that they can be embedded in policy and design of nuclear energy technologies.”