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Swiss nuclear power plants are running out of staff (www.swissinfo.ch)

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After warning Switzerland over two years ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recommends the authorities develop a roadmap to deal with the impending problem of labour shortage in Swiss nuclear power plants.

Switzerland's existing nuclear power plants are on the verge of having their lifetimes extended from 50 to 80 years. But now a problem is threatening to thwart these plans.

The search for skilled labour is becoming increasingly challenging, as reported by the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday. There are currently over 40 vacancies at the Beznau, Gösgen and Leibstadt nuclear power plants. ...

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[–] Triple_B@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Similar issues in the US. It's a hard line of work to get into. Then again, you probably don't want just Joe Blow off the street working in Operations or acting as your HP.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Swing shift(switching between day shift and night shift repeatedly), most of the plants are several decades old at least, the human performance tools certainly keep things safer but are a colossal pain in the dick sometimes. The pay is certainly decent but that only gets you so far, especially when there are already staffing issues so you have an abundance of overtime “opportunities” you have to pick up.

Some of the guys where I work have trained ten different generations of new operators, and have said as much that it’s disheartening as hell to give somebody that much of your time and effort and then they leave within two years.