Although the human resources development programme for each country has its own unique characteristics that should be identified considering the above-mentioned factors, in the following paragraphs the human resources needs for different stakeholders will be analysed according to their main mission.

The ranges presented in the following paragraphs should be interpreted as indications of orders of magnitude of the number of specialists required for each group of activities for a new NPP with a single unit. Most data have been extracted and adapted from IAEA (2007a).

Table 6.2 summarizes the human resources requirements according to different functions or activities to be accomplished during the implementa­tion of the nuclear programme. Statistics regarding future nuclear employ­ment in the USA can be found in Clean and Safe Energy Casenergy Coalition (2009).