What is nuclear energy policy?
Q: What is nuclear energy policy?
A: Nuclear energy policy is a national and international policy concerning some or all aspects of nuclear energy, such as mining for nuclear fuel, extraction and processing of nuclear fuel from the ore, electricity generation by nuclear power, enriching and storing spent nuclear fuel and nuclear fuel reprocessing.
Q: How does military aspirations affect energy policy decisions?
A: Since nuclear energy and nuclear weapons technologies are closely related, military aspirations can act as a factor in energy policy decisions. The fear of nuclear proliferation influences some international nuclear energy policies.
Q: How many countries use nuclear power plants?
A: As of 2007, only 31 countries, or 16% of the 191 United Nations Member States operated nuclear power plants.
Q: Which countries rely most on Nuclear Energy?
A: Countries that rely most on Nuclear Energy were France (with 75% of its electricity generated by Nuclear Power Stations), Lithuania, Belgium, Bulgaria Slovakia and Sweden Ukraine and South Korea.
Q: Who is the largest producer of Nuclear Capacity?
A: The largest producer of Nuclear Capacity was the USA with 28% of worldwide capacity followed by France (18%) and Japan (12%).
Q: What happened to Germany following the Fukushima disaster in 2011?
A: Following the March 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, Germany has permanently shut down eight out its 17 reactors.
Q:Which countries have banned construction new reactors ?
A: Switzerland and Spain have banned the construction of new reactors.
