NEW YORK, June 19 NY-Medialink-CASEnerg
NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Clean and Safe Energy Coalition
(CASEnergy Coalition) recently released a new report titled, Job Creation in
the Nuclear Renaissance that catalogues the potential for tens of thousands of
high paying American jobs in the nuclear energy industry in the next decade.
(See video from the CASEnergy Coalition at:
http://www.mediaseed.tv/Story.aspx?story=35257)
Coalition Co-chair Christine Todd Whitman, former EPA Administrator and
New Jersey Governor, was joined by a diverse group of leaders to support the
positive economic and environmental impact of nuclear energy expansion in the
United States. Among those who support the findings of the white paper are:
-- U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-DE)
-- U.S. Senator George Voinovich (R-OH)
-- U.S. Representative James Clyburn (D-SC)
-- U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-MI)
-- U.S. Representative Jason Altmire (D-PA)
-- Mayor Bill Saffo, Wilmington, NC
-- John Engler, President and CEO, National Association of Manufacturers
-- Mark Ayers, President, Building and Construction Trades Department,
AFL-CIO
-- Dr. Patrick Moore, Co-Founder, Greenpeace
-- Lisa Stiles, Project Manager, Strategic Staffing and Knowledge
Management, Dominion Nuclear
-- Michael Kurzeja, Vice President, North American Young Generation in
Nuclear
-- Gilbert J. Brown, Ph.D., Professor and Coordinator, Nuclear Engineering
Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The white paper examines the job growth potential for existing and future
nuclear power plants and finds that nuclear plants are a boon to local
economies. Altogether, 12,000 to 21,000 new jobs will be added to the U.S.
market if some 30 reactors currently planned for construction are built. These
are long-term jobs that would exist throughout the operation of the reactor,
promising decades of employment.
-- Each nuclear plant provides 400 to 700 high-paying jobs.
-- Depending on construction methods, each new reactor could require as
many as 4,000 workers per project at peak periods.
-- According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the median annual salary for
nuclear engineers is $82,900 - approximately $8,000 more than all other
engineering disciplines except petroleum engineering.
-- Each of the country's 104 reactors generates an estimated $430 million
a year in total output for the local community, and nearly $40 million per
year in total labor income.
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SOURCE Medialink and CASEnergy Coalition
