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RE: Steemit Introduce Yourself #3/3: I'm Jackie O - Pole Dancer, Fiddler and Engineer.
I knew you were an interesting person even before I found out that you were a founding member of a ladies concrete toboggan team.
Good luck at your defense. I did my PhD at UC Berkeley in 2001. My field is surface science and materials chemistry, but I work with a lot of engineers now. We build small nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel assemblies for research reactors.
Thanks, and nice to meet you @professorbromide! Awesome! I actually worked at a small engineering firm for the summer after my first year of undergrad that specialized in tritium handling. I helped with designing a research reactor for Chalk River Labs, up here in Canada! :)
What was your PhD thesis topic?
We have some people at work who have done projects with Chalk River. The nuclear community is small so everyone knows each other.
Our most recent connection with the Canadian nuclear industry is the acquisition of a medical isotope business. North America is going through some significant upheaval in the supply chain for Mo-99 and there is a lot of interesting work going on in that field.
My PhD was on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of catalysts. We were looking at carbon monoxide and nitrogen monoxide on the surface of single crystals of platinum and rhodium.