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Dr. Michio Kaku (b. January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs, and a best-selling author…..Kaku was born in San Jose, California to Japanese immigrant parents, and attended and played first board on the chess team of Cubberly High School in Palo Alto in the early 1960s. At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, N.M., he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku as a protégé, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku received a B.S. degree summa laude from Harvard University in 1968 where he placed first in his physics class. He went on to attend the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. degree in 1972, and held a lectureship at Princeton University in 1973. During the Vietnam War, Kaku completed his US Army basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia and his advanced infantry training at Fort Lewis, Washington. However, the Vietnam War ended before he could be deployed as an infantryman….Kaku currently holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics and holds a joint appointment at City College of New York, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has taught for more than 25 years. Presently, he is engaged defining the “Theory of Everything”, which seeks to unify the four fundamental forces of the universe: the strong force, the weak force, gravity and electromagnetism. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and New York University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and American Men and Women of Science……Kaku has publicly stated his concerns over issues including the human cause of global warming, nuclear armament, nuclear power, and the general misuse of science.[2] He was critical of the Cassini-Huygens space probe because of the 72 pounds of plutonium contained in the craft for use by its radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Alerting the public to the possibility of casualties if its fuel were dispersed into the environment during a malfunction and crash as the probe was making a ’sling-shot’ maneuver around earth; he was critical of NASA’s risk essment. [3] (Ultimately, the probe was launched and successfully completed its mission. Kaku is generally a vigorous supporter of the exploration of outer space, believing that the ultimate destiny of the human race may lie in the stars, but is critical of some of the cost-ineffective missions and methods of NASA.),,,,Dr. Kaku credits his anti-nuclear war position to programs he heard on the Pacifica radio network, during his student years in California. It was during this period that he made the decision to turn away from a career developing the next generation of nuclear weapons in ociation with Dr. Teller and focused on research, teaching, writing and media. Dr. Kaku joined with others such as Dr. Helen Caldicott, Jonathan Schell, Peace Action and was instrumental in building a global anti-nuclear weapons movement that arose in the 1980s, during the administration of US President Ronald Reagan….Dr. Kaku was a board member of Peace Action and on the board of radio station WBAI-FM in New York City where he originated his long running program, Explorations, that focused on the issues of science, war, peace and the environment.

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I'm only in high school, but i'm planning my future. I'm going to finish my first year of college while i'm in high school (post-secondary) at Tri-C (Cuyahoga Community College). So when i graduate, i will be 17 in my second year of college. Then i'm thinking of doing another year at CSU (Cleveland State University) or Case Western. Then after that year i'm going to another college, but i don't know which one to choose. I'm either going into financing or nuclear engineering (i know big difference). HELP! !

Case Western is a great school in the Cleveland area, mostly based in medicine..but other great majors

OSU is a great school as well.
Kent State University
Akron University is known for Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering.
Bowling Green
Youngstown State

The list goes on and on as far as school in Ohio

those I listed happen to be some of the Top Ohio Colleges.

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Can you get a degree in chemical engineering then get another undergradute degree in nuclear engineering? Like if enough of the classes overlap. Say if 75% of the clases are equivalent could you just do another year of school and have two undergraduate degrees one in chemical engineering and another in nuclear engineering?

Sure. It's called a "dual major" and most colleges will let you do it.

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Ok… I'm 16 years old- I withdrew from public school the beginning of this year, and have acquired my GED. I am now at a community college earning my Associates degree in Science, my GPA is above 3.0. I've taken Calculus, Physics, and am going into Calculus II… I have 3 questions…

1. ) With my school history, could I get into an acceptable college? NC State, in particular?

2. ) I've always wanted to be a Mechanical Engineering, but lately I've been wondering if somehow, is there any way I could dual-major in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering?

3. ) What would be my capabilities regarding the Nuclear field? And also, what type of salary could I expect?

1. ) With my school history, could I get into an acceptable college? NC State, in particular?

You seem to be a mixture of success and failure, so I suspect a college would wonder why you dropped out of HS and then apparently smartened up. GED's are OK but a red flag. The good news might be that colleges tend to take anyone who can pay the tuition. Go to the college and find out.

2. ) I've always wanted to be a Mechanical Engineering, but lately I've been wondering if somehow, is there any way I could dual-major in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering?

The advice about going Mechanical is pretty good as it gives you more options in the job world. You would find Nuclear Engineering as a college major to be quite challenging, even if you find a college with a nuclear engineering program. I would suggest Georgia Tech if you are a southern kid. MIT or Michigan State might be options for some. Most of the courses important to Mechanical are fundamental to Nuclear, and you would find Nuclear to be a lot more sophisticated mathematically, and a bit more abstract (vague). I would recommend as others have that you would be well advised to do Mechanical and be happy with that. I would also support taking a few Nuclear courses, such as the basic ones on operational concepts. At some point you might decide to go into the Navy Reserve Officer Training Program as part of your college option and, perhaps, get then get a commission as an officer in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. That approach would give you the broadest qualifications for the future nuclear power industry, either at the end of your first required military service or at retirement. One other factoid is that Nuclear Engineer grads have very limited job options as they are often viewed as the guys who have to figure out which fuel cell should go where in the reactor core during refueling operations.

3. ) What would be my capabilities regarding the Nuclear field? And also, what type of salary could I expect?

Salaries are a bit higher in the nuclear field as you get a lot of additional training, up to a year or so, to become an reactor operator, assuming you can memorize the nuclear plant systems and emergency procedures. More training if you go into the Navy Program, which also makes you more attractive to the commercial nuclear world when you leave the Navy. Again, however, if you are thinking that nuclear engineers get more pay, which they might, they also have fewer job opportunities and a more narrow scope of expertise, which is boring. You would likely want to get a Doctoral Degree in Nuclear to be able to do the really interesting, hard, or challenging work in that field.

Overall, it is worth talking to a Navy recruiter to see how badly they need nuclear operators now, as you can likely parlay your associates degree into an enlisted job in the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program, possibly specializing as an "ET" or Electronics Technician. If you really want mechanical, they also have Machinist Mates or MM's that operate and maintain the mechanical systems (pumps, valves and pipes). The ET's are the reactor operators and instrumentation people, general smarter, too. The Navy will help you decide what you can do since they don't let you do something that you would not be good at.

The enlisted people who worked for me in the Navy Program often saved up and went to college after their 6 years of service. Also, they then realized that going through college is a piece of cake relative to what they had to do in the Navy training program.

Good questions. No good answers. Keep collecting info and asking.

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Royal Oak Middle school Nuclear Apple Corps, Too Exhibition Autonomous Painting Robot Qualifying event 1st Place winner

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