Table 4.40 Labor Requirements for Specific Plant Designs There are larger differences for the annual O&M and the fuel cycle labor requirements among the technologies. In all scenarios, these requirements are about 15 to 30 times the annual construction requirements for coal and the LWR technologies, which dominate the technology mixes. Replacement of coal and nuclear with solar technologies would reduce these requirements significantly. Figure 4.43 illustrates these comparisons. The earlier scenario data and the labor data for O&M and the fuel cycle from Table 4.41 form the basis for the figure. The reductions in the year 2030 labor requirements for O&M and the fuel cycle due to SPS deployment are about 20,000, 40,000, and 120,000 persons for scenarios CI, UI, and UH, respectively. Table 4.41 Normalized Labor Requirements (per GW)
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