Fascinating thread. Love reading the oral histories. I heard some tales of covered up nuclear accidents happening perilously close to Manhattan at Brookhaven Na

Fascinating thread. Love reading the oral histories. I heard some tales of covered up nuclear accidents happening perilously close to Manhattan at Brookhaven National Lab back in the day, and its clear from the fusion results, government science is still the largest research outlay. If you are comfortable with payscale, lack of advance, essentially academic role in natsec context, then its a dream job! I feel like the only people I know anymore who have multi-decade careers for the same entity (DoE/PPPL) are gov scientists ;)