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Don't they have more nuclear poweplants than most places in the west?
by peterpost2 4y ago
Don't they have more nuclear poweplants than most places in the west?
- lkbm 4y agoMight be more, but it's still a minority of their grid. Wikipedia has a graph for 2016: 18.1% nuclear, 47.9% natural gas, and 15.7% coal.[0] "Energy Matters" says that EU energy production was 26% nuclear in 2015, but only 12% for consumption[1], so I'm not sure how to look at that comparison. Either way, that's probably mostly France (~80%[2]). US around 8-9%[1]. TL;DR: Yes, most western countries probably have less nuclear, but it's a low bar. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Russia#Mode_of_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Russia#M... [1] http://euanmearns.com/primary-energy-in-the-european-union-and-usa-compared/ http://euanmearns.com/primary-energy-in-the-european-union-a... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France#Mode_of_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France#M...
- hwillis 4y agoRussian nuclear is ~17% (compare US at 19%). Overall it is slightly less CO2-intensive than the US, as it uses less coal. They have almost as much hydroelectric power as the entire US renewable sector.
- Y-bar 4y agoThey have a sizeable nuclear electricity production, and in energy use overall they are behind USA, but still worse than many other places: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?end=2018&locations=RU-NO-GB-US-ES-DE-FR-VN-JP&most_recent_value_desc=true&start=1990&view=chart https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?end=2018...