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.

Source: Ember via Our World in Data Annual nuclear electricity generation in terawatt-hours. Updated 2026-07-05

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