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“Life is a roller coaster. It’s best ridden with your hands in the air.”
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
I find myself saying the expression above a lot these days—to my kids, my wife, my friends, and colleagues. Most recently, I said it to the person sitting next to me after the pilot of our plane—bound for Reagan National Airport a day after the collision of AA flight 5342 and a military Blackhawk helicopter—aborted the landing at the last minute.
I am not sure where I picked up this pronouncement, but I find it to be apropos to the topsy-turvy moment where we find ourselves in 2025. In addition to the first U.S. commercial airline crash in 15 years, we are witnessing a new presidential administration in its infancy playing by the Silicon Valley rules of “move fast, break things.” We’ve seen DeepSeek, the low-cost Chinese AI that reportedly uses 50–75 percent less energy than its NVIDIA-powered counterparts, tank Constellation’s market value by more than 20 percent in one late-January trading day.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by DESD|Cosponsored by ETWDD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Lawrence E. Boing
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
James J. Byrne
Staff Producer:
Susan Gallier (American Nuclear Society)
The decommissioning workforce is changing from that which did the first decommissioning projects in the 1980s and early 1990s. Many of the current staff working decommissioning are reaching retirement age - but the need for replenishment staff on such projects is only increasing - more work is coming available in commercial NPP and FCF D&D and DOE/Government Facility D&D projects and programs. What happened is that as this transition takes place - we see more effort is now being focused on adding younger, recent new graduates and other 'career changing' staff (totally new to the D&D area) to undertake such work. Also, the number of staff needed for such work is steadily growing both for operators and regulators and subcontractors. This session will look at some of the efforts underway in the industry to supply this supply chain to 'power up' the decommissioning staffs and their credentials moving forward at all levels - university, government, operators and others.
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