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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Potential Job Boom in Nuclear Energy as Industry is poised for Enormous Growth

 One sure thing for future employment is in nuclear.  Now with three decades past the partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island and further expansion of nuclear power at a standstill, years of stagnant hiring comes to, as the American Physical Society, an independent group of physicists put it, “a greatly reduced interest among undergraduates in nuclear science and engineering programs.  This quote is from a recent report by the Society finding that the number of college nuclear engineering programs has dropped from 66 in the early 1980s to 30 in 2008. (page 4 of the pdf file)
http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Potential-Job-Boom-in-Nuclear-Energy-as-Industry-is-poised-for-Enormous-Growth.html
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