Brain Drain threatens Britain's Nuclear drive

Nuclear Power is a safe clean technology that can ease the energy crisis while providing high paying new jobs for the construction & operation of reactors. Unfortunately, much of the world has spent the past few decades demonizing nuclear power - this is one the results:

Skills shortage threatens Britain's nuclear drive - Times Online:
"Britain’s main nuclear safety regulator is struggling to halt a staff exodus that threatens to delay construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations.

A brain drain of senior inspectors and engineers has left the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) so seriously understaffed that only 16 people are overseeing a highly complex approval process for new nuclear reactors that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) says requires at least 40 people.

. . . skilled nuclear engineers are already a rarity in the UK and the nuclear industry’s renaissance is compounding the NII’s problem by triggering departures of staff to private sector companies.
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A lack of skills is viewed as one of the biggest challenges facing Britain’s nuclear industry. Only one nuclear power station, Sizewell B, has been built in Britain since the 1970s. Many universities closed their nuclear engineering departments decades ago on cost grounds and because there was so little interest in the speciality.

Although the Treasury has awarded only limited extra funding for the NII, the agency’s problems are viewed within government as a key concern."