APPresident-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Texas Governor Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy. The position entails guiding research and policy around energy production in the US, handling radioactive waste disposal, building nuclear reactors, and running the US system of national laboratories, as well as overseeing grants that fund a great deal of cutting-edge scientific research. That's all in addition, of course, to maintaining the nation's nuclear arsenal. Unlike those who've filled the role before him for the last decade, Perry has no scientific background.