There’s some ambiguity in your use of the word “science.” Nuclear engineering is controversial (i.e. building and running nuclear plants is politically controversial).
But the post I was responding to was about research. In terms of political controversy, I suspect that nuclear researchers receive essentially no hate mail, especially compared to sociologists researching child-rearing outcomes among opposite-sex and same-sex couples.
Nuclear researchers run reactors. It’s pretty much the only commercially viable way to test the effects of neutron bombardment on materials. They typically aren’t power plants, because steam turbines are a lot more work to operate and research reactors are typically intermittent and low power (in terms of the electrical grid)
There’s some ambiguity in your use of the word “science.” Nuclear engineering is controversial (i.e. building and running nuclear plants is politically controversial).
But the post I was responding to was about research. In terms of political controversy, I suspect that nuclear researchers receive essentially no hate mail, especially compared to sociologists researching child-rearing outcomes among opposite-sex and same-sex couples.
Nuclear researchers run reactors. It’s pretty much the only commercially viable way to test the effects of neutron bombardment on materials. They typically aren’t power plants, because steam turbines are a lot more work to operate and research reactors are typically intermittent and low power (in terms of the electrical grid)