Mr.+William+Bromley

Bromley dreamed of being an airline pilot. It was not until the end of high school when he became interested in physics. Bromley chose to major in physics for two reasons: he was naturally talented at it and was inspired by his high school physics teacher. In graduate school, after earning a BS degree in Physics at Penn, Bromley decided to focus on nuclear physics. This was a natural choice, as he was more interested in the microscopic world than any other. After graduating, Bromley worked in several different fields, accumulating work experience in computer science, engineering, science policy, and management. He initially studied reactor kinetics in nuclear cores for the Navy. After several years with the Navy, Bromley worked as a senior scientist at Babcock & Wilcox, where he was actively involved in the emergency shut down of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in Pennsylvania, among other things. Next, he served as group supervisor at Bechtel Corporation, where he helped design nuclear power plants and waste handling facilities. Today, Bromley is self-employed and runs his own business. He is also an active member of number scientific organizations including the American Physical Society and Physics Honor Society.
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__Day-to-Day__ Mr. William Bromley got his BS degree in physics and his masters in Nuclear physics at Penn State University. He did not get his doctorate. After college Bromley spent Six years working on Nuclear Reactor designs. Also during this time he bought his own plane and got his flying license. After his career in Nuclear reactor design he became more involved with the overall ideas of Nuclear reactors. In this career he developed and used various computer codes determine what you want to know. These codes can help with the harder things to answer as they become less broad. Also during his career he is faced with the challenge of keeping a Nuclear reactor running as long as possible. Some of these codes are used to find out where the Nuclear reactor stands in its lifetime and how much longer it can safely last. Also he uses these codes to find out what would happen if he were to change something about the reactor.

__Hobbies__ Mr. Bromley has only a few hobbies because of how much time his job takes. He has liked to play the piano ever since he was a child and also plays chess ever now and then. Around 2000 he began looking into buying a business and ending up buying some specialty rental stores that sold to the electrical contracting industry. He bought four different companies and combined them into one and ran that until the end of 2007 he sold them and now just acts as a consultant for them. One of the other hobbies he had since he was a kid is flying. He wanted to be a pilot originally and used to play all sorts of flight simulators. After college he even went through all the steps to get his flying license and now is a licensed commercial and instructor pilot. He even owns a small plane, which he uses to take his wife on vacation and fly whenever he has some downtime.