Nuclear Energy Around the World
As of May 2016, 30 countries worldwide are operating 444 nuclear reactors for electricity generation and 63 new nuclear plants are under construction in 15 countries.
Nuclear power plants provided 10.9 percent of the world's electricity production in 2012. In 2015, 13 countries relied on nuclear energy to supply at least one-quarter of their total electricity.
| France |
76.3% |
| Ukraine |
56.5% |
| Slovakia |
55.9% |
| Hungary |
52.7% |
| Slovenia |
38.0% |
| Belgium |
37.5% |
| Armenia |
34.5% |
| Sweden |
34.3% |
| Finland |
33.7% |
| Switzerland |
33.5% |
| Czech Republic |
32.5% |
| South Korea |
31.7% |
| Bulgaria |
31.3% |
International Atomic Energy Agency’s
Power Reactor Information Systems Database.