So, I had a huge promising college career. I was accepted to Penn State, put on an accelerated program, on the main campus and everything. But, coming from Texas, it was too expensive. I was going to go from Mechanical Eng to Nuclear, with the help and permissions of Penn State. Instead, I ended up at UTSA. Got accepted for a double major of MechE and ElecE. Again, main campus and all great resources. But I have no family, so I have to pay bills and rent. Got too expensive, so I dropped out, worked at McDonald's. Thought my dreams of NukeE was over, but I got a job at TowerSemiconductor as a fabrication operator. Nothing special or fancy, but through the Texas FAME program I could get an associate's degree in Advanced Manufacturing. My question is: can I use that associate's to turn around, go back to school (likely online) and do nuclear engineering while working a 12hr/3-or4 day week, or is NukeE over with, done? I'm 20, so I naturally already feel like I'm too late for this. And if I can turn this around, what should I focus on for this next year or so to get prepared? Assume that I am lower than a novice. I know this is a lot, but its been weighing heavily on my mind recently. Sorry for the rant.

I'm 15 but would like to be a Nuclear Engineer, so i wonder if anyone could advise me what steps to follow, what to learn, what to prioritize, where to study (preferably in Peru, but open to options) and how to make things work out and not end up changing my mind in the middle of the career.

I still have about a year and a half before applying for university, so please help me out on this one

Yeah it's day 1 and I am now in molecular weight and atomic weight and I do not currently understand the equations above I do understand the parts like M but what is the purposes for these equations and how to use them correctly. Thank you for the support if you want to know I'm making a game that I want to be really accurate and this is just one part of it and I feel I should know it. Thanks

Hey all,

Recently I've been messing around with different software ideas that might be useful in nuclear engineering. I settled on a rather niche, open-source activation inventory code named ACTINV.

You give it a material, particle flux spectrum, irradiation/cooling schedule, and nuclear data, and it calculates things like nuclide inventories, activity, decay heat, photon sources, and production pathways.

It's in a similar space to FISPACT, but ACTINV is completely open source and free to use, has both Python and command-line interfaces, and puts a lot of emphasis on reproducibility and keeping the underlying inputs/data visible. I did use AI in the development of this project.

Also, FISPACT is still substantially broader in some areas, so I'm definitely not claiming ACTINV replaces everything it does.

I'm not a nuclear engineer, so I'd really appreciate feedback from people who actually work with activation calculations. If anyone wants to try it, compare it with what you already use, or tell me where it falls short, that would be helpful.

GitHub: https://github.com/AvilaLabs/ACTINV