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Nuclear Industry's Comprehensive Approach Develops Skilled Work Force for the Future
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Support for Educational Programs Yields Success
Funding is an important element in the industry’s work force policy efforts. The industry and other partners worked with the government to increase funding from 1998 to 2007. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s budget provides funding for university scholarships and fellowships.
In addition to funding, several key pieces of legislation have bolstered federal support of nuclear engineering and health physics education. NEI, the American Nuclear Society, the Health Physics Society and other stakeholders supported provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that sustained university nuclear engineering programs and the NRC’s scholarship and fellowship program.
In 2007, the America Competes Act reinforced the U.S. Department of Energy’s stewardship responsibility for university education in nuclear engineering and health physics. The bill authorizes $12 million in fiscal 2009.
The nuclear industry’s efforts have produced notable results. Enrollments in undergraduate nuclear engineering programs have grown from 470 in the 1998-99 academic year to 1,933 in 2006-07. Graduate enrollments have climbed from 220 to 1,153 in the same period.
Support for Educational Programs Yields Success
Funding is an important element in the industry’s work force policy efforts. The industry and other partners worked with the government to increase funding from 1998 to 2007. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s budget provides funding for university scholarships and fellowships.
In addition to funding, several key pieces of legislation have bolstered federal support of nuclear engineering and health physics education. NEI, the American Nuclear Society, the Health Physics Society and other stakeholders supported provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that sustained university nuclear engineering programs and the NRC’s scholarship and fellowship program.
In 2007, the America Competes Act reinforced the U.S. Department of Energy’s stewardship responsibility for university education in nuclear engineering and health physics. The bill authorizes $12 million in fiscal 2009.
The nuclear industry’s efforts have produced notable results. Enrollments in undergraduate nuclear engineering programs have grown from 470 in the 1998-99 academic year to 1,933 in 2006-07. Graduate enrollments have climbed from 220 to 1,153 in the same period.