Actually you have to add GE to the competitor list with their APBWR. One of the other potential sites for it is in Clinton, IL.
Westinghouse is hiring like crazy. I would guess that they have added over 1000 new engineers, mostly new college grads in the last 2 years. They kicked out all the tenants of the west tower of the Energy Center, remodeled it, and are now populating it. Things are looking really good right now. I have friends who work for both GE Nuclear in San Jose, CA, and Areva in Lynchburg (the nuke world is a very small community), who say that their companies are hiring also.
Them Scouts eat a lot of beans, ya know on them camporees....Scouting helps take boys to men in a good way - was one myself. my co-worker in the other lab is a troop leader and has been for about 3 years now. I eat a lot of popcorn these days ;)
Now, if we could just get some folks in Congress and all across the nation to say this, mean it, and keep their word:
On my honor . . .
. . . I will do my best . . .
. . . To do my duty to God . . .
. . . and my country . . .
. . . and to obey the Scout Law; . . .
. . . To help other people at all times; . . .
. . . To keep myself physically strong, . . .
. . . mentally awake, . . .
. . . and morally straight.