NEI Nuclear Notes

There has been a very productive collaboration between the nuclear energy industry and community college to create programs to train the next generation of nuclear facility workers. It’s no big secret that the current workforce is, like so many of us, graying, so getting some whipper snappers into place is a logical idea. NEI’s Insight newsletter has written about a bunch of these programs – see here for an example and browse through the archive for a lot more. But Insight talks about it from an industry perspective. Here’s a story from the Community College Times : Far too often, we read about college students earning degrees after much hard work and expense and then find a skill-set mismatch with the expectations of the workplace. Affixing blame to this dilemma is a waste of energy (no pun intended), but it is incumbent upon the colleges to work as closely as possible with industry to ensure that their educational programs include critical skills. The partnership between...