Nuclear Energy Used For Nuclear Weapon Yield By Country

There is no clear distinction between the technology needed for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy such as the production of electricity and the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

Illegal weapon tu lyrics. The meaning of energy security when nuclear energy is involved however is a double edged sword. 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. By far the largest nuclear electricity producers are the united states with 809359 gwh of nuclear electricity in 2019 followed.

It now supplies around 4 of global electricity and is the fourth largest source of energy. The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated usually expressed as a tnt equivalent the standardized equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene which if detonated would produce the same energy discharge either in kilotons ktthousands of tons of tnt in megatons mtmillions of tons of tnt or sometimes in. At 99 the united states has more nuclear power plants than anywhere else in the world.

Survey of world energy resources 2007 world energy council 2008.