Iaea activities in support of countries considering embarking on nuclear power programme

Abstract

The IAEA annually updates its projection of the use of nuclear power in its Member States by collecting information from them. The 2008 projection [1] is that by the year 2030 installed nuclear capacity will increase by 30-100%. The low projection is an aggregation of data on plants already being built or planned or firmly committed and the high projection includes, in addition, plants that are reasonably expected to be constructed. Although most of the new capacity addition is coming from existing nuclear power countries, especially from Chin and India, there will certainly be newcomer countries starting operation of nuclear power plants by 2020. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.