Nuclear Energy To Electricity Nuclear Weapons Worldwide

Nuclear energy now provides about 10 of the worlds electricity from about 440 power reactors.

Energia nuclear slideshare united states time now. Nuclear power in the world today updated october 2020 the first commercial nuclear power stations started operation in the 1950s. In 2010 before the fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster it was reported that an average of about 10 nuclear reactors were expected to become. Its arsenal makes other mid eastern countries more interested in acquiring the nuclear energy technology that would allow them to build their own nuclear weapons.

After world war ii uranium based nuclear reactors were built to produce electricity. Around the world with few exceptions other countries have chosen light water designs for their nuclear power programmes so that today 69 of the world capacity is pwr and 20 bwr. Nuclear is the worlds second largest source of low carbon power 29 of the total in 2018.

The nuclear power brown out and revival. From the late 1970s to about 2002 the nuclear power industry suffered some decline and stagnation. Most are in europe north america east asia and south asiathe united states is the largest producer of nuclear power while france has the largest share of electricity generated by nuclear power.

Since all of the more than 400 nuclear power plants now operating in 32 countries produce large quantities of plutonium that when chemically separated from spent fuel can be used to make reliable efficient nuclear weapons of all types i have also found it necessary to call for phasing out all nuclear power worldwide. Nuclear power plants currently operate in 30 countries. The nations of the world now have more than enough nuclear bombs to kill every person on earth.

Joe biden has a 2 trillion climate plan that includes nuclear power particularly development of small modular reactors. Coal and oil burning plants pollute the air. During that period the government of the united states also built an experimental molten salt reactor using u 233 fuel the fissile material created by bombarding thorium.

Presently the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by nuclear fission of uranium. These were similar to the reactor designs that produced material for nuclear weapons. Well operated nuclear power plants do not release contaminants into the environment.

On the other hand there are certain disadvantages associated with the use of nuclear energy.