Energy
Europe’s Nuclear Revival Lacks a Key Ingredient: Skilled Workers
Hundreds of thousands of welders, engineers and planners are needed to build reactors for the energy transition.
The engine room at Electricite de France SA’s Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor.
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Europe’s aggressive blueprint to bolster its nuclear fleet for the energy transition is jeopardized by a lack of key components: skilled workers.
Atomic power producers in France, the UK and Sweden are having trouble finding the hundreds of thousands of welders, engineers and planners needed for reactors they’re building now and ones they’re eyeing for mid-century.