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10/7/2008
An October 7, 2008 article from The Associated Press reports that colleges are seeing a steady increase in the number of students enrolled in nuclear engineering (and related) classes. Due in large part to the country's renewed interest in nuclear energy as an alternative to oil, it is anticipated that dozens of new nuclear plants will be constructed in the near future. After booming in the 1960s and early 1970s, the field of nuclear energy started to slow down after the incidents at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant (1979) and the Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant (1986). Consequently, there is some concern that it will be difficult to find enough experts in the field to adequately train a new work force. More than one-third of the existing nuclear work force will be eligible to retire within the next five years.
The article is available at the MSNBC Web site.
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