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March 22, 2012 - NEI Press Release - Nuclear Industry Invests Record Funding for Education as Federal Support Withers - To help fill the expanding need for qualified workers in the nuclear energy field, the U.S. nuclear energy industry is providing record funding to institutions of higher education and calling on the federal government to reverse “short-sighted” reductions in its funding for related programs. In 2011, the industry contributed more than $15 million to universities and community colleges to support nuclear engineering programs ($8.6 million) and nuclear energy technician programs ($6.6 million). The industry’s direct support included cash grants, scholarships, fellowships, equipment donations, internships, co-ops and subject-matter expert support. The industry’s educational investment comes amid a generational transition in the commercial industry’s 60,000-member work force, at a point when nearly 70 percent of the nation’s 104 reactors have received 20-year license extensions from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and construction of five new reactors is under way or imminent in Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina. “The nuclear energy industry is in the beginning stages of significant work force transition, with 39 percent of its personnel eligible to retire by 2016 and the need to replace up to 25,000 employees,” said Elizabeth McAndrew-Benavides, the Nuclear Energy Institute’s senior manager of work force policy and programs. “We believe the federal government is facing similar challenges.

 

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