Nuclear reactors do not produce direct carbon dioxide emissions. Unlike fossil fuel-fired power plants, nuclear reactors do not produce air pollution or carbon dioxide during operation. However, processes for mining and refining uranium ore and the production of reactor fuel all require a large amount of energy. Nuclear plants create more jobs than other forms of energy. 7 They create 0.5 jobs for every megawatt hour of electricity produced. This is in comparison to 0.19 jobs in coal, 0.05 jobs in gas-fired plants, and 0.05 in wind power. As a result, new gas-fired power plants were built from 1992 to 2005. an Advantages of nuclear energy Low-cost energy. Although building nuclear power plants has a high initial cost, it's relatively cheap to produce energy from them and they have low operating cost.
