OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Press Releases

06-Oct-2008

NEA press releases are available on the Agency's main website, www.nea.fr/html/general/press/. Archives are also available.

Nuclear Energy Today (Policy Brief)

30-Sep-2008

Nuclear energy has been used to produce electricity for more than half a
century. It currently provides about 15% of the world’s supply and 22% in OECD
countries.

The oil crisis of the early 1970s provoked a surge in nuclear power plant orders
and construction, but as oil prices stabilised and even dropped, and enough
electricity generating plants came into service to meet demand, orders tailed
off. Accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States (1979) and at Chernobyl
in Ukraine (1986) also raised serious questions in the public mind about nuclear
safety.

L’énergie nucléaire aujourd’hui (Synthèses)

30-Sep-2008

L’énergie nucléaire est utilisée depuis plus d’une cinquantaine d’années pour
produire de l’électricité. Elle assure aujourd’hui près de 15 % de la production
électrique dans le monde et 22 % dans les pays de l’OCDE.
La crise du pétrole au début des années 70 a stimulé les commandes et la
construction de centrales nucléaires.