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Graduates of IRSC/FPL Power Plant Technology Institute receive employment at St. Lucie Nuclear Plant

By Florida Business Break

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Fort Pierce, FL – 19 new graduates of Indian River State College's Power Plant Technology Institute will be moving on to jobs at FPL's St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant.

In a ceremony Thursday morning at IRSC, college president Edwin Massey, U.S. Representative Tom Rooney and officials from FPL and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers celebrated the students' graduation from the two year program and presented them with letters of employment.

Now in its fourth year, the institute is a partnership between IRSC, FPL and the IBEW