Considering the legal process for getting a nuclear plant online takes 8-11 years itself before construction begins, it's not exactly high on the list of immediately relevant growing job sectors to recover our economy. However, spending lots of dough building green energy is something we could do TODAY if we wanted and furnish millions of Americans with jobs as a result.
Long term, nuclear energy is going to be part of the solution to energy and probably create jobs too. Short term, it's not exactly something that's going to create work as effectively as any number of other alternatives.
