The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2015: Key insights
- Japan without nuclear power for a full calendar year for the first time since the first commercial nuclear power plant started up in the country 50 years ago.
- Nuclear plant construction starts plunge from fifteen in 2010 to three in 2014.
- 62 reactors under construction—five fewer than a year ago—of which at least three- quarters delayed. In 10 of the 14 building countries all projects are delayed, often by years. Five units have been listed as "under construction" for over 30 years.
- Share of nuclear power in global electricity mix stable at less than 11% for a third year in a row.
- AREVA, technically bankrupt, downgraded to "junk" by Standard & Poor's, sees its share value plunge to a new historic low on 9 July 2015—a value loss of 90 percent since 2007
- China, Germany, Japan—three of the world's four largest economies—plus Brazil, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Spain, now all generate more electricity from non-hydro renewables than from nuclear power. These eight countries represent more than three billion people or 45 percent of the world's population.
- In the UK, electricity output from renewable sources, including hydropower, overtook the output from nuclear.
- Compared to 1997, when the Kyoto Protocol on climate change was signed, in 2014 there was an additional 694 TWh per year of wind power and 185 TWh of solar photovoltaics—each exceeding nuclear's additional 147 TWh.
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