Common benefits include health insurance, vacation, sick leave, and a retirement plan. Outlook Nationally, employment of nuclear engineers is expected to grow more slowly than average through 2008. Job openings will be rare because this is a small occupation and because it is not growing. Most positions will open as a result of current engineers moving to other jobs or retiring. Since very few people study to become nuclear engineers, competition will not be very strong for these positions.
Many people are concerned about the safety of nuclear power.
Thus few new nuclear power plants are expected to be built in the future. In fact, some power plants may shut down soon. Nuclear engineers, however, will still be needed to operate the existing power plants. Some nuclear engineers work in medicine where they help build machines to treat patients with radiation. This is not an entry-level job.