Shortage of naval architects, marine engineers will challenge US nuclear ambitions
- Training ecosystem ‘undersized, underfunded and insufficiently coordinated’
- SMR ships ‘not a plug-and-play technology’, says Dr Thomas McKenney
- Training for nuclear propulsion crew could take up to a year, and crew will command higher wages
The people who will design, license, build, crew, inspect, insure and respond to nuclear-powered commercial ships are too few, and providing the instructors, curricula and facilities to train them will take years, the US Maritime Administration was told
