Overview
The country that produces the largest percentage of
its electricity by nuclear power is France where,
75% of electricity was produced by nuclear. It is
followed by Lithuania with 73%, Belgium with 58%,
Bulgaria, Slovakia and Sweden with 47%, Ukraine with
44% and Republic of Korea with 43%. In ten other countries,
more than 25% of the electricity was produced by nuclear
power (see Figure 6.2). The largest contributor to
the world’s installed nuclear capacity was the USA
with 28% of total capacity, followed by France with
18% and Japan with 12%
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Nuclear Share
Of Electricity
During the last decade, the number of NPPs almost
stagnated in North America and Western Europe, experienced
a low growth in Eastern Europe and expanded only in
East Asia, principally in China, the Republic of Korea
and Japan. If this trend continues, nuclear power’s
share of world electricity supply will decline, according
to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy
Outlook 2000, from the current 16.3% to about 9% by
2020,
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Expansion
of nuclear power
nuclear waste
management
innovative reactor designs
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