The World is Switching to Nuclear Energy
Nuclear energy is staging a dramatic global comeback as energy security fears, fossil fuel volatility, and the limits of renewables force governments to reconsider their long-held opposition.
Despite decades of relentless anti-nuclear propaganda which paralysed the use of nuclear energy and stifled its expansion, harsh realities arising from the wars in Ukraine and Iran, as well as the inherent limitations of wind and solar energy, particularly their inability to provide reliable baseload power, have accelerated the expansion of nuclear power around the world.
In a sense, nuclear energy has been a victim of its original use to end World War II in the Pacific, with the bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bringing about the Japanese surrender in August 1945.
In the minds of many, nuclear energy is inextricably linked with the military applications of nuclear fuel, which does not apply to other energy sources such as coal, petroleum and renewables.
However, from the 1940s onwards, nuclear scientists and engineers believed that nuclear energy had the potential to deliver almost unlimited quantities of affordable, reliable electricity. Many developed countries, including the United States, UK, France, Russia, Japan and China, have long developed nuclear power stations that have comprised a significant share of these countries’ energy mix.
In France, for example, nuclear energy provides about two-thirds of the country’s electricity. Other European countries with high nuclear electricity production share include Slovakia, with 60 per cent of its electricity from nuclear, Hungary, with 47 per cent, and Finland, at over 39 per cent.
The world’s largest user of nuclear power is the United States, which had 94 reactors in operation in 2024, followed by China with 57.
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Peter, thank you. Such a welcome, data driven piece. I feel that the more we flag the nuclear option, the less triggered will be the opponents. What intrigues me is that these nuclear plants can ‘generate’ more nuclear fuel as they generate electricity. I am not saying they are fully ‘self-sufficient’ but they are certainly ‘efficient.’ I am now challenged to conduct more research.
Give the “all clear” to nuclear in Australia.
Once we adopt nuclear policy we will become the repository for the nuclear waste of the UK, etc. I oppose it as dangerous.
Waste is among the poorest of reasons to oppose nuclear power. It is easily dealt with and minuscule in volume compared to other industrial waste streams that are far more toxic but to which we don’t give a second thought.
Thanks Mark, also we have a stable geology which makes us most suitable for long term sequestering of waste