The Tennessee Board of Regents is seeking state appropriations this year to help expand industry-focused workforce training at TCAT schools across the state. Locker said if funding, TCAT would focus on industry training prioritized by state officials, including aviation, artificial intelligence, and nuclear energy industries. Locker said TBR also wants to expand ceramic tile workforce training, as it is a popular industry in the Upper Cumberland. Locker said expanding TCAT’s nuclear energy workforce training programs would help meet the high demand the industry is seeing right now. Making more training opportunities available across a broad array of careers that the industry needs to operate.”Locker said for every one nuclear engineer, the nuclear industry needs about ten other specialized professions to work with.