OECD NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY OUTPUT PREDICTED TO RISE 0.9% A YEAR UNTIL 2010

Europe Energy, June, 1998

The amount of electricity generated by nuclear means in the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) should continue to increase by 0.9% each year at least until 2010. If this rate of increase, predicted by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) on June 5, is sustained, the figure of 2,007 terawatt hours of nuclear-generated electricity produced in 1997 will rise to 2,244 TWh in twelve years' time. However, these statistics are somewhat misleading since the rise in nuclear-generated electricity relates to the fact that electricity production as a whole is on the rise in OECD countries and in fact the percentage produced by nuclear power stations is ever decreasing. In 1997, 24.3% of OECD electricity was nuclear-generated. By 2010, this...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.