IAEA forecasts. (International Atomic Energy Agency)

Energy Report, December, 1992

The IAEA's latest published estimates show that nuclear power production worldwide will maintain modest growth well into the next century. In the latest edition of Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2010, the IAEA estimates that nuclear energy production will grow an average of 1.5% to 2.5% per year worldwide over the next two decades.

Nuclear electricity production in countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) rose by 2.1% between 1990 and 1991, according to OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Nuclear power provided 23.5% of the electricity generated in OECD countries in 1991. The NEA projects that the share of nuclear-generated electricity in OECD countries will stabilise at around 21% by the...

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