Emerging Economies to Increase Use of Nuclear Energy to Meet Power Demand

Forum Contacts RSS		RUSSIAN

Emerging Economies to Increase Use of Nuclear Energy to Meet Power Demand – Report

RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED 28.07.2014

Emerging countries will play a defining role in the global installed nuclear capacity expansion, driven by the demand for more and more power, GlobalData website says.

“Nuclear power has the capacity to produce large amounts of electricity and therefore meet the growing demand for power,” Pranav Srivastava, GlobalData’s Associate Analyst covering Nuclear Power, said.

The company’s report stated that emerging markets’ interest and activity in nuclear energy sector will increase nuclear installed capacity worldwide from 371 Gigawatts (GW) in 2013 to 517 GW by 2025.

GlobalData said that the emerging nuclear countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are constructing more than 20 nuclear reactors, which will add 13.8 GW of nuclear power by 2030. Vietnam alone will account for 10 of the reactors and 6.8 GW of power.

Vietnam has already signed deals on the construction of the nuclear reactors with Russia and Japan.

The world’s nuclear power generation decreased in 2011 and 2012, which was the result of the 2011 meltdown of three of Fukushima Daiichi plant’s reactors after an earthquake hit north-eastern Japan.

According to Srivastava, under the influence of the disaster, Germany and Switzerland have plans to phase out nuclear power, while China, Japan, France and the UK have developed strong nuclear safety frameworks and performed stress tests on their existing nuclear reactors to ensure safe operations.

Topics: Opinions

Other news:

Russia Planning 3 Advanced Fast-Breeder Reactors at Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant by 2030

Beloyarsk’s fifth power unit will be the first in line to get a next-generation reactor installed on-site to enable a closed nuclear fuel cycle.

Russia May Sign Agreement to Build 8 Reactors in Iran

A source close to the negotiations told journalists Thursday.

Hungary Enacts Law to Expand Nuclear Power With Russian Aid

Hungary’s president has signed a bill into law to expand a nuclear power plant in the country with Russian assistance.

Hero of the day

The ISTC Responsible Science Program and Subprogram Culture of Nuclear Nonproliferation

The dual-use nature of nuclear technology consisting in the potential for its application equally in peaceful and military sphere is the basic contradiction for the existing nuclear nonproliferation regime and comprehensive development of the nuclear power and nuclear fuel cycle.

INTERVIEW

Jerry Hopwood
We are currently working with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on this approach, which was submitted in response to their February 2012 call for alternative proposals. We appreciate that the UK is in the early stages of their policy development activities and are pleased to be involved in such important work.

OPINION

Joint Plan of Action
The goal for these negotiations is to reach a mutually-agreed long-term comprehensive solution that would ensure Iran's nuclear programme will be exclusively peaceful. Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek or develop any nuclear weapons.