15 September 2017
Some 200,000 job-years of employment are created by each 1000 MWe of nuclear capacity constructed, according to a new study by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The figures come from a joint report entitled Measuring Employment Generated by the Nuclear Power Sector. The authors used a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches in an attempt to create a methodology that can be applied to all electricity (...)