Related to OP's thread question - not trying to hijack thread
I've got a bit of a conundrum - I've already been accepted on to several Nuclear Engineering courses, Birmingham's MEng being the main one but I'm concerned about whether I've specialised too soon and I should have a more general degree in Chemical Engineering to specialize further later on. I am concerned that without a Masters, there'll be issues with funding to go all the way to PhD level.
I'm especially interested in applications of thorium as a radionuclide, molten salt coolants, and certain kinds of plasma physics in magnetic confinement and pinch based fusion reactors. I'm really interested in graphene and other materials with interesting properties too, but didn't particularly like materials in physics at AS (there were no mechanisms described at all, just a lot of rote memorisation!)
Should I stick it out with my Nuclear Engineering course, or plan to switch within the first two years?