TITLE

FOUR NEW PLANTS ADDED TO WORLD NUCLEAR FLEET IN 1999

PUB. DATE

September 2000

SOURCE

Power Engineering;Sep2000, Vol. 104 Issue 9, p26

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the addition of four nuclear power plants to the world grid in 1999. Location of the four nuclear power plants; Fraction of electricity supplied by nuclear power in Germany, the United States and Russia; List of ten countries with the highest reliance on nuclear power in 1999.

ACCESSION #

4473816

Tags: NUCLEAR power plants;  ELECTRICITY

 

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