Who uses nuclear power?

Who uses nuclear power?

Over 16% of the world's electricity is generated from uranium in nuclear reactors. This amounts to about 2400 billion kWh each year, as much as from all sources of electricity worldwide in 1960. In a current perspective, it is twelve times Australia's or South Africa's total electricity production, five times India's, twice China's and 500 times Kenya's total.

It comes from about 440 nuclear reactors with a total output capacity of about 370 000 megawatts (MWe) operating in 31 countries. About thirty more reactors are under construction and another 40 are planned.

Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine all get 30% or more of their electricity from nuclear reactors. The USA has over 100 reactors operating, with capacity of almost three times Australia's total, and supplying 20% of its electricity. The UK gets almost a quarter of its electricity from uranium.