Westinghouse Adds 5,000 Employees Over Last Four Years

ByRod Adams

Fox Business interviews Westinghouse Senior Vice President Kate Jackson about the company’s steady growth in employees during a period that has seen other companies shrink. She explains how the nuclear industry is growing internationally, what the company is doing to find new hires, and what kind of skills the company needs. The impressive news is that Westinghouse is planning to add 1,000 people in 2010 and 750 people every year for the foreseeable future.

Another important tidbit of that Ms. Jackson shares is that the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) attitude that used to be associated with nuclear plants has turned into IMNY – In My Back Yard by the continued safe and clean operation plus the public outreach and transparency that most nuclear installations practice on a day to day basis. The closer you get to nuclear plants the more public support you find for new nuclear plants and for continued operation of the existing plant.

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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  1. Hi Rod. This blog will be quoted in TheStreet / RealMoney Monday, June 7 at 10:45 AM with attribution and a link.

  2. Would have liked to read the article but I’m not dealing with the ’14 day free trial’ business.

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