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Mitsubishi cutting Charlotte nuclear engineering staff in half Charlotte Business Journal, John Downey 14 Nov 13   Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems will lay off 48 people from its Charlotte Engineering Center by the end of the year, cutting the staff by roughly half.

The layoffs come as Mitsubishi has decided to slow its efforts to get Nuclear Regulatory Commission certification of its US-APWR reactor. That led the power companyLuminant to announce plans last week to suspend its effort to license two 1,700 megawatt Mitsubishi reactors at the Commanche nuclear plant in Texas.

In April, Dominion announced it was abandoning plans to build a Mitsubishi unit at its North Anna Nuclear Station…….. Mitsubishi had about 100 workers when it celebrated the grand opening of its center in Ballantyne in spring of 2012.

At that time, executives said the center could have as many as 150 workers by 2017. But the center never got above the 100 mark.

The state offered $4.1 million in incentives to bring the center here.http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/power_city/2013/11/mitsubishi-cutting-charlotte-nuclear.html