Nuclear Plants Provide Jobs, Prosperity

• Nuclear energy plays an important role in American job creation and economic growth. Annually, this includes the economic value of the electricity it produces ($40 - $50 billion), the jobs it produces (100,000 direct employment), the domestic procurement of goods and services ($14 billion from 22,500 vendors) and payment of local, state and federal taxes ($8.3 billion).
• A typical U.S. nuclear plant employs between 500 and 700 workers in jobs that pay, on average, 36 percent above the prevailing local wage rate.
• Thirty-six percent of the U.S. nuclear energy workforce will be eligible to retire in 2016, providing tens of thousands of job opportunities in the next two to four years for new labor force entrants.
• A recent analysis showed that nuclear energy, while among the least expensive forms of electricity, is the most employment and salary intensive of all energy sources:

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