It might seem inventive, but in this scope/size intuition is often wrong. Same with all large or long-term things in general; humans are notoriously bad at those.

Take this specific case; stay the reactor's systems fail (all of them including the quadruple redundancies), those jobs and energy generators are kind-of irrelevant if you are dead...

I'm sure the reactor enables a lot of jobs far enough away that they'd be safe if it explodes or whatever

In that case, why not make many exploding reactors, jobs for everyone! /s

You do see what the point is, right?