The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2004 was co-finances by the Greens/EFA and is an updated review of the report from 1992. IIt confirms that nuclear industry is on its way out:
The combined installed nuclear capacity of the 436 units operating in the world in the year 2000 was less than 352,000 megawatts – to be compared with the forecast of the International Atomic Energy Agency from the 1970s of up to 4,450,000 megawatts. At the end of October 2004 the 440 worldwide operating reactors totalled 365,500 megawatts. Nuclear power plants provide 16% of the electricity, 6% of the commercial primary energy and 2-3% of the final energy in the world.
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 (for Download)
