The staff will be less but not proportionally. Same with construction costs. After building these things for 60 years, never underestimate the governments ability to screw things up. See Vogtle 3 and 4. It has now been 8 years and no end in sight.
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-progress-for-vogtle-34-8415144
It has now been 8 years and no end in sight...
And yet the French have been successful using Westinghouse PWRs!
In France, unlike in America, nuclear energy is accepted, even popular. Everybody I spoke to in Civaux loves the fact their region was chosen. The nuclear plant has brought jobs and prosperity to the area. Nobody I spoke to, nobody, expressed any fear. From the village school teacher, Rene Barc, to the patron of the Cafe de Sport bar, Valerie Turbeau, any traces of doubt they might have had have faded as they have come to know plant workers, visited the reactor site and thought about the benefits of being part of France’s nuclear energy effort.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html