Korean Energy Economic Review ISSN:1599-7057(Print) 에너지경제연구

The direction of the 10th Basic Plan for Power Supply and Demand, announced in 2022, suggested that both the proportion of renewable energy and the proportion of nuclear power to increase. Therefore, this study estimated the economic inducement effect of new construction and continued operation by separating the construction sector and generation sector of APR-1400. This is because when the ratio of the generation resource changes, the required inputs change, which has a different effect on the production and employment of related industry. According to the analysis results, the induced production coefficient of nuclear power construction is 1.968 and the induced employment coefficient is 10.065 people/billion Won. The induced production coefficient of nuclear power operation is 0.414, and the induced employment coefficient is 1.763 people/billion Won. Compared to the induced production coefficient of coal power and LNG power in the previous studies, nuclear power still has a greater inducement effect in Korea. It is expected that the construction and continued operation of nuclear power will have a greater inducement effect in Korea than other fossil fuel sources.