Science & Infrastructure2000–2025
Nuclear Power Generation
Nuclear electricity is a race where the leaders do not all move in the same direction. The United States stays huge, France rises and stumbles, Japan disappears after Fukushima, Germany exits, and China climbs from a rounding error to the world's third nuclear producer.
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Source: Ember via Our World in Data Annual nuclear electricity generation in terawatt-hours. Updated 2026-07-05
The race in numbers
0lead changes
25years covered
12contenders
United Stateslongest reign — 25 yrs at #1, wire to wire
Final standings · 2025
- 1United States785 TWh
- 2China488 TWh
- 3France392 TWh
- 4Russia219 TWh
- 5South Korea185 TWh