Well, this might not be helpful to you but I contemplated getting back into the business myself. Contacted a bunch of old coworkers still in the business, dropped emails to friends at various plants and facilities, and ended up with about nothing.
A few factors seem to be in play. The biggest of them is really the major factor that caused me to get out of the business in the first place; the shrinking universe of the nuclear industry. For example, when I looked into the compensation picture for HP Techs and Engineers, it looks like both are making less money now than when I left the business in the mid-1990s. The other thing I noticed was that the people I talked to were very protective of the situations that they were in. Both of these are indicators of there being fewer jobs around in general. Combine this with shorter outages and you end up with a more competitive job market and a glut of underused talent.
I'm sure that there's folks on here that would disagree with my assessment but when I was in Oak Ridge a couple of months back, it looked like a shell of its former glory and its apparent that its gone and won't be coming back. I would have to say that if you think getting back into the nuclear business is better than where you are now, you're probably remembering a nuclear business that doesn't really exist anymore and the one that does exist is a shrinking set of opportunities tied heavily to what the government feels like spending on cleaning up their old messes.
Maybe somebody else sees this differently but judging from the flood of encouragement posted to this thread, I'm guessing not.
Bill