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I am setting up a Japanese language profile in LinkedIn. I am a Nuclear
Engineer, but am unsure exactly how that profession is worded in japanese. The
two options that seem most appropriate are: 原発の技師 and 原子力の技師 I know I can also
use katakana to mimic the English words. Which of thise is appropriate?

To include my company would it be: "[Company] で 原発の技師"

I would appreciate help fixing up these two issues. Thank you in advance for
your assistance!
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word-choice particles
Professional Titles for Engineer
Did a quick concordance search on google and came up with ~420k hits for
原子力技術者 and ~25k for 原発技術者. The former also pulled up hits on job websites, so
I'd go with that for your LinkedIn.

You have a couple options for how to say where you work. You can say
[Company]の原子力技術者, but I've also seen [occupation]@[Company] a lot of social
media like Twitter.
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It depends on what you actually do.

  * 原発 (short for 原子力発電所) refers only to a nuclear power plant. If your specialty is to design or install a large machine to generate electricity, 原子力発電技術者 makes sense.
  * 原子力 is nuclear power. If your job is related only to producing energy (power plant, atomic battery, etc), you can use 原子力技術者.
  * If your specialty is more generic and related also to nuclear medicine, cyclotrons, etc., then 核技術者 or 核工学者 should be better.

Also note that, since Japan has experienced several tragic episodes related to
nuclear physics, both 核 and 原子力 often has a bad image among laypeople. You may
want to consider something like 量子工学者 instead.
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