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<title>Our World in Data - Nuclear Energy</title>
<subtitle>Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems</subtitle>
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<updated>2025-10-01T04:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <title>France opened a flurry of nuclear power plants in the 1980s and 1990s, giving it low-carbon electricity ever since</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/france-opened-a-flurry-of-nuclear-power-plants-in-the-1980s-and-1990s-giving-it-low-carbon-electricity-ever-since</id>
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    <published>2025-10-01T04:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/france-opened-a-flurry-of-nuclear-power-plants-in-the-1980s-and-1990s-giving-it-low-carbon-electricity-ever-since"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/6492860f-be4c-4daa-bf6c-7ea00d444b00/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Japan closed nearly all of its nuclear plants after Fukushima, but some are coming back online</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/japan-closed-nearly-all-of-its-nuclear-plants-after-fukushima-but-some-are-coming-back-online</id>
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    <published>2024-10-25T05:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/japan-closed-nearly-all-of-its-nuclear-plants-after-fukushima-but-some-are-coming-back-online"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/542b8487-1a79-4f33-fe32-69b3ffece200/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Nuclear Energy</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy</id>
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    <published>2020-07-10T08:24:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author><author><name>Pablo Rosado</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Explore global data on nuclear energy production and the safety of nuclear technologies.<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/2367228b-984d-4434-0913-3752ed5d8600/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>What was the death toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima?</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima</id>
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    <published>2017-07-24T08:47:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[When we think of nuclear safety, two accidents often come to mind: Chernobyl and Fukushima. What was the death toll and impact of these disasters?<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/efcefb86-0db9-4d84-8375-902849533400/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Global renewables are growing, but have been partly offset by a decline in nuclear production</title>
    <id>https://ourworldindata.org/global-renewables-are-growing-but-are-only-managing-to-offset-a-decline-in-nuclear-production</id>
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    <published>2017-05-19T21:06:28.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[To displace fossil fuels we need to increase low-carbon energy. While renewables have been growing, a decline in nuclear has offset some of these gains.<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/global-renewables-are-growing-but-are-only-managing-to-offset-a-decline-in-nuclear-production"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/54c80145-b0b4-44f4-a97f-c97465a7f200/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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