By Paul Scicchitano

As companies of all sizes continue to search for creative ways to overcome the global recession, a growing number of traditional manufacturing organizations are setting their sites on an unprecedented resurgence in the nuclear power industry.

“We expect that by 2016 that there will be 75,000 new hires in the nuclear industry,” declares Mitchell Singer with the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) in Washington, DC. "It’s been a catalyst for suppliers of various different components.”

A major industry conference organized by the Nuclear Procurement Issues Committee (NUPIC) in June drew some 500 attendees, many of them new to the industry. “About half of them had never been to a NUPIC meeting. They were there investigating the possibility of getting involved in the nuclear industry,” observes James Highlands, a nuclear quality consultant, who has spent decades assisting companies in meeting the industry’s rigid quality standards.

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