Posted on 04/21/2023 7:03:20 AM PDT by karpov
Former governor (and Martin Center namesake and board member) Jim Martin recently called for meeting North Carolina’s decarbonization goals and reliable electricity needs by deploying a nuclear-energy technology known as Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). Our state needs to be sure that its higher-education resources are well-positioned to meet the personnel needs of this emerging industry.
Already, many of North Carolina’s leaders have embraced the reality that nuclear energy will have to be part of any decarbonization solution. North Carolina senator Thom Tillis recently boasted in an email that “North Carolina’s public colleges and universities have been at the forefront of nuclear research and workforce development for decades.” Furthermore, the senator declared, “our state will play a crucial role in training the next generation of nuclear engineers and operators.”
Dr. Kostadin Ivanov, head of NC State’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, told me that “nuclear engineering programs and departments in U.S. universities … have been building capacities to provide the workforce needed to support the growth in the nuclear industry.” Doing this work has required “hiring new faculty, enhancing experimental and computational facilities, modernizing undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and strengthening the cooperation with national laboratories and industry.”
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This is a joke, right?
The same higher education that doesn’t know what bathroom to use?
Hire former US Navy nuke propulsion technicians.
Plenty of 20 something borderline autistic youths that completed a training program that should never work to go around. Some of us in our 50s.
Agreed. Went through the Nuke program myself. Most conventional facilities do not allow “college” nukes to operate reactors and get their license for years. Navy Nukes usually get head of the line access to the best jobs in the facilities due to the training and operating experience.
Of course not. That’s why they will have to hire Chinese and perhaps some Indians.
Where did Sam Brinton go to college?
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