Paul Dibb, Emeritus Professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific said Australia would need to expand its submariner force from about 800 today to 4000 to crew the 13 new submarines: five Virginia class and eight British ships.
“It’s a quantum leap in the onboard living conditions. It is like going from Toyota to Rolls-Royce,” Professor Blaxland said.“It is a lot more livable to live on a submarine with nuclear propulsion because you can have air conditioning to the heart’s content. There are hot and cold showers.” Blaxland said several universities including ANU and the University of NSW were strengthening their nuclear physics, nuclear engineering and nuclear science programs to meet the submarines’ future workforce requirements.
UNSW offers the nation’s only nuclear engineering program, and has 53 postgraduates at its Sydney campus and 74 undergraduates at UNSW Canberra.
wow that's really going to put the pressure on all those recently promoted because they had the right skin colour, sexual orientation, gender, or were just very good at making inclusive statements
We are so far behind at the moment, so we need more than just training newbies