Nuclear energy accounted for a 69 percent share of France's total electricity production in 2021. That was the lowest proportion of electricity production attributed to nuclear energy in France since the 1980s. However, in 2021 France was the country with the largest
Nuclear share of total electricity generation in France from 1985 to 2021
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Statistics on Nuclear power in France
Power plants
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Capacity, production, and consumption
5
- Premium Statistic Net nuclear electrical power capacity in France 1985-2021
- Premium Statistic Nuclear energy production in France 2000-2021
- Premium Statistic Share of nuclear electricity in France 1985-2021
- Premium Statistic Nuclear energy consumption in France 2005-2021
- Premium Statistic Share of nuclear primary energy in France 2011-2021
Uranium
7
- Basic Statistic Orano's global production volume of uranium 2010-2021
- Premium Statistic Nuclear fuel fabrication capacities in France 2012-2035
- Premium Statistic Plutonium use in France 2013-2025
- Basic Statistic Projected uranium enrichment capacities in France 2012-2040
- Basic Statistic Projected uranium enrichment requirements in France 2013-2035
- Basic Statistic Projected uranium conversion capacities in France 2012-2040
- Basic Statistic Projected uranium conversion requirements in France 2012-2035
Nuclear waste
4
- Premium Statistic Nuclear waste present in France by level of radioactivity 2021
- Premium Statistic Radioactive waste breakdown by economic sector in France 2021
- Premium Statistic Volume of radioactive waste by type in France 2016-2021
- Premium Statistic EDF Group's long-lived solid radioactive HLW and ILW in France 2015-2021
Spent nuclear fuel
5
- Premium Statistic Largest global processing plants for spent nuclear fuel recycling by capacity 2020
- Premium Statistic Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacities in France 2013-2040
- Premium Statistic Spent nuclear fuel arisings and in storage in France 2013-2020
- Basic Statistic Projection of spent nuclear fuel storage capacities in France 2013-2025
- Premium Statistic Transported spent nuclear fuel by EDF Group in France 2012-2020
Companies
3
Accidents
5
- Premium Statistic Significant events registered on the INES in France 2010-2021
- Premium Statistic Events involving safety in nuclear power plants notified in France 2018-2021, by type
- Premium Statistic Infringement reports transmitted by the ASN inspectors in France 2010-2021
- Premium Statistic Weather impact on nuclear power production in France 2015-2020
- Premium Statistic Total outages of nuclear reactors in France 2019-2021, by type
Further related statistics
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- United Kingdom (UK): GVA by the nuclear energy industry 2010-2013
- Evaluation of own knowledge about nuclear energy in the Netherlands 2018
- Opinions about the use of nuclear power in Sweden 2019, by age
- U.S. market size of nuclear decommissioning services 2014-2025
- U.S. market size outlook of nuclear decommissioning services by reactor 2020-2025
- Opinions about the use of nuclear power in Sweden 2019, by gender
- Nuclear energy generation in the EU 1965-2021
- Share of French people who think nuclear power is an asset for France 2019, by region
- Profit before appropriations of Teollisuuden Voima Oy in Finland 2013-2018
- Most convincing arguments against nuclear power in France in 2019
- Nuclear electricity consumption in the U.S. by key state 2021
- Nuclear energy production in the European Union 2018, by country
- Russia: total primary energy supply from nuclear 2015-2060, by scenario
- Gross primary electricity production in France 2006-2015
- U.S. nuclear power generation share by state 2019
- Electricity production from fossil fuels in Libya 2014-2019
- N2O emissions from electricity production from oil in the UK 1990-2017
- Revenue of China National Nuclear Corporation International 2018-2021, by country
- Share of electricity produced from oil, gas and coal in Cyprus 2003-2015
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- Evaluation of own knowledge about nuclear energy in the Netherlands 2018
- Opinions about the use of nuclear power in Sweden 2019, by age
- U.S. market size of nuclear decommissioning services 2014-2025
- U.S. market size outlook of nuclear decommissioning services by reactor 2020-2025
- Opinions about the use of nuclear power in Sweden 2019, by gender
- Nuclear energy generation in the EU 1965-2021
- Share of French people who think nuclear power is an asset for France 2019, by region
- Profit before appropriations of Teollisuuden Voima Oy in Finland 2013-2018
- Most convincing arguments against nuclear power in France in 2019
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- Gross primary electricity production in France 2006-2015
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IAEA. (June 21, 2022). Nuclear share of total electricity generation in France from 1985 to 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 30, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/462535/nuclear-share-electricity-generated-france-since-1985/
IAEA. "Nuclear share of total electricity generation in France from 1985 to 2021." Chart. June 21, 2022. Statista. Accessed March 30, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/462535/nuclear-share-electricity-generated-france-since-1985/
IAEA. (2022). Nuclear share of total electricity generation in France from 1985 to 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 30, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/462535/nuclear-share-electricity-generated-france-since-1985/
IAEA. "Nuclear Share of Total Electricity Generation in France from 1985 to 2021." Statista, Statista Inc., 21 Jun 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/462535/nuclear-share-electricity-generated-france-since-1985/
IAEA, Nuclear share of total electricity generation in France from 1985 to 2021 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/462535/nuclear-share-electricity-generated-france-since-1985/ (last visited March 30, 2023)
Nuclear share of total electricity generation in France from 1985 to 2021 [Graph], IAEA, June 21, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/462535/nuclear-share-electricity-generated-france-since-1985/