Noise is being made about placing a small nuclear reactor in my county. Since we are losing population, any project that promises JOBS, regardless of potential consequences, is sucked up to like a puppy at a teat. Construction would be modular and apparently offsite, so how many local jobs might be generated? And , approximately how many people are necessary to operate a SMR, and how many would be permanently oN site?
I have poked around on the internet, but can't find any figures. Might someone help me with search terms ?
Thanks.
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Here's a study from 2010 which guesses 374 permanent jobs in operations and 1238 temporary jobs in construction. Manufacturing will not be local. See Table 10, p. 33.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256064650_Economic_and_Employment_Impacts_of_Small_Modular_Nuclear_Reactors#pf23 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256064650_Economic_and_Employment_Impacts_of_Small_Modular_Nuclear_Reactors#pf23)
There's a tad more by googling employment in small modular reactors, but I didn't look at the two or three other relevant items on the first page.
The ones I read about decades ago would be mostly stand alone units with minimal supervision, so almost no jobs added to the community.
Thanks!
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