Often mainly due to political reasons though. Also you can't really make meaningful conclusions based on that plot due to obvious reasons. It only includes "Nu

Often mainly due to political reasons though. Also you can't really make meaningful conclusions based on that plot due to obvious reasons. It only includes "Number of nuclear reactors shutdown worldwide". The construction peak was ~1980. The oldest commercial plant was opened only 68 years ago and obviously the early plants much less safe and had a shorter lifetime which introduces another bias...