I'm trying that out, and it seems that jquery is installed when you include the Semantic UI CSS. According to the docs: http://react.semantic-ui.com/usage, you need to install the CSS separately with
$ npm install semantic-ui-css --save
and with that I get
├─┬ semantic-ui-css@2.2.10
│ └── jquery@3.2.1
Plus a whitescreen because jQuery is not defined...bummer
As one would expect with a fully featured framework, it does add some weight. I have a basic form project I'm working on that just uses some basic styling and components that I hand coded and the production JS and CSS (after gzip) are ~70k and ~2k respectively.
After including Semantic UI and dropping an example form component in, it jumped up to ~140k JS and ~93k CSS.
http://react.semantic-ui.com/introduction