<p>[Obama</a> wants to invest in nuclear energy. Transcript. - Lynn Sweet](<a href=“http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/02/obama_wants_to_invest_in_nucle.html]Obama”>http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/02/obama_wants_to_invest_in_nucle.html)</p>
<p>There is going to be a nuclear renaissance whether the public likes it or not. 8 billion just got put into the one nuclear plant and now obama wants to triple it. He sounds pretty committed to nuclear power to me. That being said I’m pretty sure nuclear power will rise back to prominance. We got two sets of people in the US, Dems and Repubs, and everyone knows it. Republicans generally speaking already want nuclear power so the only real issue is getting the dems on board. And guess who the president is? The Dems hero. I’m pretty sure Obama can get his fellow dems to support nuclear growth and then its just a matter of him smoothing over the public. Which he also happens to be good at. </p>
<p>Throw in the fact that other countries around the world are beating us and nuclear power ought to come back to relevance in the US. We as Americans dont like to lose. We are competitive as hell and wont go down. Correct? Will we be the leader in nuclear power? We very well can/should be but even if we dont the nuclear industry will still grow substantially to keep up. Competition breeds success.</p>
<p>All that being said… I see absolutely nothing wrong with doing undergrad in nuclear as opposed to mechanical. I’ve been told I should major in mechanical first and then do grad school in nuclear by several people too but everytime I hear some authority talk about nuclear power I dismiss the idea of doing mechanical in undergrad(I also plan on working in nuclear industry. Just might go to TAMU too if finances work out). Everyones argument about getting mechanical is too provide a “safety net” of sorts. However, all of this news about nuclear growth prompts me to think that I wont need a safety. Obviously it is logical to provide a fall back just in case but when you want to work on something revolutionary that bad (technically nuclear power isn’t revolutionary or ground breaking but it might as well be because of the slump) then you might as well take the jump. I’m going to try and take the jump. Unless I’m forced to be In-State I’m gonna say screw mechanical and go straight for nuclear.<br>
But I’m not even in college, let alone the industry. What do I know? I’m just an optimistic kid trying to justify his future career :)</p>