The mission of the Department of Nuclear Engineering is to maintain and strengthen the University of California’s only center of excellence in nuclear engineering education and research, and to serve California and the nation by improving and applying nuclear science and technology. The mission of the undergraduate degree program in Nuclear Engineering is to prepare our students to begin a lifetime of technical achievement and professional leadership in academia, government, the national laboratories, and industry.

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September 19th and 20th, 2008
The Nuclear Engineering Department's 50th Anniversary Celebration. » read more

For more than 20 years, nuclear science and engineering has been a sorely neglected field in terms of support required to train the next generation of engineers and scientists.Recently, the situation has dramatically changed. Our nation is now going through a nuclear renaissance with exponential growth in three areas of long-term strategic importance: energy security and independence; homeland security and non-proliferation; and nuclear medicine imaging and cancer therapy. » read more