THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF UNDERSTANDING NUCLEAR PUBLIC POLICY FOR YOUNG SAFEGUARDS PROFESSIONALS

摘要

Based on the personal experiences of a nuclear engineering graduate student, this paper seeks toshare the benefits of, challenges of and lessons learned from working within and trying tounderstand nuclear public policy. These experiences come from a United States federal governmentinternship, a nongovernmental organization workshop, and various liberal arts university courses.These lessons have been condensed into three categories to prepare a young nuclear safeguardsprofessional to better understand public policy: (1) establish a nuclear policy foundation (2) discussthe development of critical reading skills (3) prepare for technical policy interactions.