[Targan]

In my last campaign I had MILGOV forces in the CONUS regularly sequestering anyone deemed to have critical and rare technical skills, particularly folks like nuclear reactor techs (or even nuclear phycisist academics with only limited "hands on" experience with reactors), chemical engineers, radar and avionics techs, electronic engineers, the list goes on.

Having said that, when local commanders gathered up and protected such people they often weren't in a position to (or were unwilling to) send them to a central location or even to where they were most needed at any given time. With long-range communications so sporadic and the general slow erosion of MILGOV control in many areas it would be difficult for MILGOV's top commanders to keep an accurate list of all the specialist experts that regional commanders had managed to gather up.

It would be quite a difficult process to identify who was where and get the required people to where you needed them, particularly if you had to move them through areas not firmly under MILGOV's control. I guess my point is that I agree that the military would secure the experts it needed for projects like restarting nuclear reactors, but it would take some time to send out requests for info, send out the orders and move the human resources to the right places safely and securely.