Developing nuclear power

The Response Strategies Working Group of the International Panel on Climate Change calls for a major expansion of nuclear power.

In terms of installed nuclear capacity, numbers of nuclear stations, and the amount of nuclear electricity sold, the nuclear industry in western Europe is the largest in the world (followed by North America). Nuclear power produces over 30% of electricity consumed in Europe. In 1994, there were more than 150 operational nuclear units in West European countries. The nuclear industry in western Europe spends a total of some 55,000 million ECU per year on operating and supporting its present nuclear stations, on the construction of 4 new stations, and other developments; and it provides some 450,000 jobs.

1. Using nuclear power
2. Increasing energy supplies
3. Generating electrical power
4. Developing civil nuclear industry technology
5. Controlling hazardous industries
6. Originating-Imitating

1. Testing reactors
2. Relocating nuclear power plants
3. Improving infrastructure for nuclear power generation
4. Enriching uranium
5. Developing nuclear operational safety
6. Developing methods for permanent disposal of nuclear waste
7. Complying with nuclear power safeguards
8. Building nuclear power stations
9. Accumulating nuclear reactor waste

1. Using nuclear power
2. Stockpiling nuclear material
3. Risking radiation accidents
4. Reducing environmental impacts of electrical power generation

1. Supplying nuclear materials
2. Reducing cost of nuclear power plants
3. Protecting nuclear power plants
4. Improving viability of nuclear power plants

1. Restricting nuclear power
2. Opposing nuclear energy generation
3. Campaigning against nuclear developments

1. Reduction in building of nuclear power stations
2. Prohibitive cost of nuclear power plants
3. Nuclear reactor accidents
4. Environmental hazards of nuclear power production
5. Environmental hazards of decommissioned nuclear power plants

1. Power