Nuclear Energy Around the World

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For some reason I thought China and others had more energy coming from nuclear.

"Nuclear energy contributes significantly to the total energy generation in various countries, with some nations relying heavily on it, while others use it as a smaller fraction of their energy mix. France leads with 65% of its energy coming from nuclear power, followed closely by Slovakia at 63%. Ukraine also has a substantial share, with nuclear energy accounting for 50% of its total energy generation. Hungary, another European nation, derives 45% of its energy from nuclear sources.

In North America, the United States generates 18% of its energy from nuclear power, while both the United Kingdom and Canada each rely on it for 14% of their total energy needs. China, despite its rapid industrial growth and increasing energy demands, derives only 5% of its total energy from nuclear sources. South Africa, the only African country listed, has 4% of its energy mix coming from nuclear power.

India, with its vast energy needs and diverse sources of electricity generation, produces 3% of its energy from nuclear power. Brazil has an even lower share, with only 2% of its energy generation coming from nuclear sources.

These statistics reflect the varying levels of nuclear power adoption across different regions, influenced by factors such as government policies, energy needs, and availability of other resources."

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I wonder what the raw numbers look like in terms of total power generated, not considering population.
You can get the monthly figures here and add them up:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US/all/monthly

EDIT: Got it to show yearly:

US:
781TWh

China:
418TWh

France:
360TWh

Russia:
215TWh

Canada:
84.48TWh

Japan:
79.4TWh

India:
53.9TWh

Spain:
52.3TWh

Sweden:
48.6TWh

Britain:
38.3TWh

Finland:
31.1TWh

Czechia:
29.7TWh

Slovakia:
18.2TWh

Bulgaria:
15.7TWh

Brazil:
15.7TWh

Argentina:
11.3TWh

Romania:
10.8TWh

South Africa:
7.78TWh
 
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For some reason I thought China and others had more energy coming from nuclear.

"Nuclear energy contributes significantly to the total energy generation in various countries, with some nations relying heavily on it, while others use it as a smaller fraction of their energy mix. France leads with 65% of its energy coming from nuclear power, followed closely by Slovakia at 63%. Ukraine also has a substantial share, with nuclear energy accounting for 50% of its total energy generation. Hungary, another European nation, derives 45% of its energy from nuclear sources.

In North America, the United States generates 18% of its energy from nuclear power, while both the United Kingdom and Canada each rely on it for 14% of their total energy needs. China, despite its rapid industrial growth and increasing energy demands, derives only 5% of its total energy from nuclear sources. South Africa, the only African country listed, has 4% of its energy mix coming from nuclear power.

India, with its vast energy needs and diverse sources of electricity generation, produces 3% of its energy from nuclear power. Brazil has an even lower share, with only 2% of its energy generation coming from nuclear sources.

These statistics reflect the varying levels of nuclear power adoption across different regions, influenced by factors such as government policies, energy needs, and availability of other resources."

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It's cheaper for China to build coal and boy have they been busy. China has 55 nukes and 25 or so under construction. Compare that to 95 or so coal plants just for 2024.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/#:~:text=The country began building 94.5,according to the two thinktanks.
 
China has a large build program, with lots of units under construction, but at this point their largest source is still coal by far.
Yup, people forget that China was not a major industrial and economic power till about the 1980s and not "middle class" till around 2000. It is probably impossible to build a large fleet of nuke that fast.
 
France is building new nuclear specifically to export power to Germany. Many countries that border each other import or export significant amounts of electricity and that isn't considered in the chart.
 
Reliant on cheap Swedish Wind production.
Sweden finally talking about new reactors and final repository.

Today:
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Can be, absolutely, depends on the scope of the dunkelflaute, geographically. Large ones tank wind production over pretty much the whole of Europe, current one seems to be only Germany, France, Netherlands, North Norway, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Romania...etc.

Doesn't look like demand is all that high right now, so that's good.
 
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