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Electricity : Global Map of Nuclear Power Plants
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Nuclear generated electricity is not just produced in the United States. Most developed countries world-wide have nuclear power plants generating electricity for their citizens. Furthermore, nuclear power generation continues to grow annually. With concerns over the environmental effects of global warming and pollution from gases emitted from coal-fired plants, the demand for nuclear power is projected to continue to increase a great deal in the next decades.
Statistics issued by the Power Reactor Information System of the International Atomic Energy Agency indicate that in 1999 436 nuclear power plants operated in 32 countries around the world. Included in this number were 104 plants operating in 30 states in the U.S.
While the U.S. can boast about having the most nuclear power plants, electrical power from this plants provides less than 20% of all power supplied in the U.S. Other countries are much more dependent on nuclear than the U.S. The next figure ranks the per capita supply of nuclear power for the top 15 nuclear power generating countries. For 1999 nuclear energy represented about 75% of total electricity production in France, 58% in Belgium, 47% in Sweden, 43% in South Korea, 38% in Hungary, 36% in Switzerland, 31% in Germany, 36% in Japan, 33% in Finland, 30% in Spain, 29% in the United Kingdom, 20% in the Czech Republic, 19% in the United States,13% in Canada, 5% in Mexico, and 4% in the Netherlands.
( Please note that the global map is currently unavailable. It will be added at a later date. )
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