A Labor Shortage for U.S. Nuclear Plants

摘要

It took Japan's Fukushima disaster to make nuclear energy interesting to students in Karl Craddock's advanced placement chemistry class at William Fremd High School in Palatine, 111. Too bad the buzz was about radiation plumes, iodine pills, and potential deadly threats at nuclear power plants that generate more than half the electricity in Illinois. It wasn't the sort of talk to get kids excited about a career in nuclear energy. "It doesn't have the cool factor right now, that's for sure,"