World Energy Needs and Nuclear Power

(Updated May 2015)

• The world will need greatly increased energy supply in the next 20 years, especially cleanly-generated electricity.
• Electricity demand is increasing twice as fast as overall energy use and is likely to rise by more than two-thirds 2011 to 2035. In 2012, 42% of primary energy used was converted into electricity.
• Nuclear power provides about 11% of the world's electricity, and 21% of electricity in OECD countries.
• Nuclear power is the most environmentally benign way of producing electricity on a large scale.
• Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are costly per unit of output and are intermittent but can be helpful at the margin in providing clean power.

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