The development will take years to build and require muscle and brain power. Elected officials and local union leaders see years of opportunities.
Currently, there isn’t an exact figure of how much money will be invested in the development, but the anticipated decades of construction will provide opportunities.
“We’re talking several billions of dollars in investment,” said Stuart McWhorter, Tennessee’s Commissioner of Economic and Community Development. “Capital investment in Roane County, in Oak Ridge.”
McWhorter said necessary investments in muscle and brain power will ripple across the region, especially in education.
“If they’re not addressing the nuclear sector, from a standpoint of workforce development, workforce training, they will be,” he said.
Local 270 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) based in Oak Ridge views the project as an opportunity to grow its portfolio. They are anticipating it will help boost the demand for new development in the area.
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