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  • Texas nuclear power plants seek new workforce

    01/14/2014 5:36:39 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 25 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | January 14, 2014 | Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune
    "....Not everyone is equipped to operate and maintain a reactor, or to monitor radiation levels inside a plant and on its own employees. Nuclear energy officials feared they would soon lack the manpower to operate the country's current reactors as their licenses were renewed, let alone the new ones."It's at all levels, from the managers on down,"Koehl said of his company's needs, adding that specialty engineers and people with other industry-tailored skills are particularly hard to find.That includes Jesse Wells, who has coordinated 18 of STP's planned outages, the monthlong powering down of a reactor to refuel it and perform...