Overview
1. Automation Risk
2. User Poll
3. Growth
4. Wages
5. Volume
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Nuclear Engineers

Low Risk
22%
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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
22%
(Low Risk)
POLLING
21%
(Low Risk)
Average: 22%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
-0.8%
by year 2033
WAGES
$125,460
or $60.31 per hour
Volume
12,710
as of 2023
SUMMARY
JOB SCORE
6.6/10

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Calculated automation risk

22% (Low Risk)

Low Risk (21-40%): Jobs in this level have a limited risk of automation, as they demand a mix of technical and human-centric skills.

More information on what this score is, and how it is calculated is available here.

Some quite important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Originality

  • Persuasion

  • Social Perceptiveness

User poll

21% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 22% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Nuclear Engineers will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?






Sentiment

The following graph is included wherever there is a substantial amount of votes to render meaningful data. These visual representations display user poll results over time, providing a significant indication of sentiment trends.

Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Slow growth relative to other professions.

The number of 'Nuclear Engineers' job openings is expected to decline 0.8% by 2033

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2021 and 2031
Updated projections are due 09-2024.

Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Nuclear Engineers' was $125,460, or $60 per hour

'Nuclear Engineers' were paid 161.0% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Significantly lower range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 12,710 people employed as 'Nuclear Engineers' within the United States.

This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 11 thousand people are employed as 'Nuclear Engineers'.

Job description

Conduct research on nuclear engineering projects or apply principles and theory of nuclear science to problems concerned with release, control, and use of nuclear energy and nuclear waste disposal.

SOC Code: 17-2161.00

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Comments

j (No chance) 6 months ago
Nuclear engineers are required to develope nuclear fusion, and if AI gets a single thing about a nuclear reaction wrong the whole thing will go up in flames.
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Matt 7 months ago
KABOOM!
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Billy Auger (Low) 9 months ago
Would people really trust a robot to run a nuclear reactor? I don't think so.
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Husain Lokhandwala (No chance) 4 years ago
No chance because nuclear engineers have ideas and theory, and are creative, which robots cannot use ideas and theory for experiments very likely, and even less likely to be able to be creative. Robots only can do continuous things, and nuclear engineers do a variety of tasks.
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