Revamping Nuclear Engineering for a Complex World
May 28, 2025
President Trump recently issued executive orders with the stated goal of dramatically ramping up nuclear energy. All the more reason why, as Aditi Verma and Denia Djokić maintain in Issues, the field of nuclear engineering must fundamentally “reexamine its intellectual and ethical foundations and commitments.” The goal, they write, should be “creating nuclear engineers who, in addition to being trained in the scientific and engineering rigors of the field, are intellectually flexible and disciplinarily multilingual, and so can situate their engineering knowledge in the much richer and complex social world that has to make sense of the technologies they design and create.”