Some information on current status of civil nuclear power.
440 commercial nuclear reactors in 31 countries, with >350,000 MWe of total
capacity. They supply 16% of the world's electricity, as base-load power.
The following countries generate more than the global average of nuclear
electricity:
France 75%
Lithuania 73%
Begium 58%
Sweden 47%
Bulgaria 47%
Slovakia 47%
Ukraine 44%
Hungary 38%
Slovenia 37%
Japan 36%
Switzerland 36%
Armenia 36%
South Korea 33%
Finland 33%
Spain 31%
Germany 31%
UK 29%
Taiwan 25%
Czech 21%
USA 20%
The ranking in terms of generating capacity in terawatt-hours follows:
USA 728
France 375
Japan 307
Germany 160
Russia 111
South Korea 98
UK 91.2
Canada 70
Sweden 70
Ukrain 67
Spain 56.5
Belgium 47
Taiwan 37
Switzerland 23.5
Finland 22
Bulgaria 14.4
Hungary 14.1
China 14.1
South Africa 13.5
Czech 13.4
Slovakia 13.1
India 11.5
Mexico 10
Lithuania 9.9
Argentina 6.6
Romania 4.8
Slovenia 4.5
Brazil 4
Netherlands 3.4
Armenia 2.2
There are 26 power reactors under construction in 11 countries.
All data 1999 from the uranium informatrion centre
(http://www.uic.com.au/reactors.htm)
Jon
"Vandergraaf, Chuck" wrote:
> Glenn,
>
> I agree with most of what you have written except your fourth point,
>
> "4. we are going to have to get over the notion that we can tax people into
> submission and force them by such means not to drive their vehicles. Given
> that the UK paysaround $4.00 per gallon tax on gasoline, it doesn't really
> stop people from driving. People simply have to get to work."
>
> The reason people drive to work is that they have been able to do so in the
> past. Thos who could not afford to drive to work made sure that they either
> 1) lived close enough to walk or 2) lived close enough to public
> transportation routes. Our kids are prime examples: when they left home and
> went to college or to work, they 1) lived on campus, 2) close enough to walk
> to campus, 3) close enough to the bus stop and in a strategic location to
> get to campus and their part time jobs as efficiently as possible. Once
> they can afford it, they may buy cars and do "the North American thing" by
> moving to areas of the cities where buses don't run as frequently, unless
> they see the writing on the wall and choose to do their commuting by public
> transit.
>
> As gasoline prices increase, you'll see a gradual reversal of the "exodus to
> the suburbs." It may take a while, because people tend to adhere to their
> current lifestyle at a appreciable cost, but it will happen. But even if
> they don't, the incoming work force will make a decision on where to live on
> the basis of the current and projected gasoline costs and that won't likely
> be a 30 km commute in a gas guzzling car!
>
> There may be severe dislocations when the price of gas goes up too rapidly:
> some may have to sell their house at a fire sale price and move into the
> areas of the cities that they worked hard to move out of (sorry to end this
> sentence with two prepositions). Others may have to give up good jobs too
> far away for not-so-good jobs closer to home.
>
> Chuck Vandergraaf
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