Nuclear power around the world:

Nuclear power plants provided some 16 per cent of the world’s electricity production in 2005. Thirty countries worldwide were operating 442 nuclear reactors for electricity generation in June 2006. In total, 16 countries relied on nuclear energy to supply at least one-quarter of their electricity needs.

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Australia is the only developed nation in the world that does not use electricity from nuclear energy, according to the World Nuclear Association. But Australia has been highly active in nuclear power research. In 1953, the Australian Parliament passed the Atomic Energy Act, which established the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC). An extensive research program was conducted by the AAEC into the potential use of uranium to provide fuel for a nuclear reactor. The plans were eventually abandoned in the early 1970s.

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