86% of the operators that will be coming into the control rooms will have little or no experience. One of the NRC speakers at the 2011 PROS Meeting this year asked what was so wrong with our culture that the plant equipment operators do not want to be reactor operators, the reactor operators do not want to be senior reactor operators and the senior reactor operators do not want to be shift managers. What makes the jobs so unrewarding? We need as an industry to fix this. Just as some technical issues that contributed to the Japan disasters, the soft issues, the cultural issues can be just as consequential. Along with all the issues that will be addressed in the wake of Japan 9.0, should this be one of them. I am asking your input why this is occurring.
