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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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4. Um, Nuclear Engineers are highly educated, highly trained professionals, and are, happily, largely indifferent...

Reply to BrianTheEVGuy (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 21, 2024, 10:29 AM

Sep 2024

...to tiresome rote and frankly boring knee jerk fifty year old jokes disconnected from reality. Extreme global heating isn't funny.

The people with whom my son, seeking his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, works are not clowns wasting time watching Simpsons episodes on TV, but rather people working hard, day and night, in the very difficult task of trying to save the world.

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