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EU Electricity production from nuclear (percentages relative to 1990 level): EU Electricity production from nuclear (percentages relative to 1990 level) Since 1990, the amount of arising spent fuel remained stable while, at the same time, the amount of electricity generated from nuclear power increased by 38.4%
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Nuclear energy and waste production (ENER 013) - Assessment published Sep 2010: The amount of high level nuclear waste from nuclear electricity production continues to accumulate. In 2007, 34,216 tonnes of heavy metals contained in high level nuclear waste was in storage, up 13.2% since 2005. The annual quantity of spent fuel was approximately 3,461 tonnes of heavy metals in 2007, relatively stable since 1990. On the other hand, the electricity produced from nuclear power increased by 17.7% over the same period. This partial decoupling between electricity production and generation of radioactive waste can be explained by the fact that fuel rods are replaced gradually as well as by recent improvements in fuel burnup, plant efficiency and increased plant availability.
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EU Electricity production from nuclear (percentages relative to 1990 level): EU Electricity production from nuclear (percentages relative to 1990 level). Spent fuels arisings: Data for Bulgaria is not included due to a lack of information. No 2008 and 2009 data available for Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia and Sweden, so 2007 data rolled. Lithuania closed its last nuclear reactor at the end of 2009.
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Numbers of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities operational in 2011: Reprocessing is an important part of the fuel cycle within the European nuclear fuel industry, as illustrated by the share of European reprocessing facilities to the global total number of facilities. Europe imports most of the uranium consumed by its nuclear power plants as ore, having very little mining production in the region itself
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The cost of ignoring the warning signs - EEA publishes ‘Late Lessons from Early Warnings, volume II’: New technologies have sometimes had very harmful effects, but in many cases the early warning signs have been suppressed or ignored. The second volume of Late Lessons from Early Warnings investigates specific cases where danger signals have gone unheeded, in some cases leading to deaths, illness and environmental destruction.
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Cost structure of nuclear power projects: Cost structure of nuclear power projects
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Annual quantities of spent nuclear fuel arising from nuclear power plants in the EU (tonnes of heavy metal): No information has been included for Bulgaria due to a lack of data.
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Stored total amount of high level waste (in tonnes heavy metals): The figure shows the amount of high level nuclear waste continues to accumulate.
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Numbers of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities operational in 2010: Reprocessing is an important part of the fuel cycle within the European nuclear fuel industry, as illustrated by the share of European reprocessing facilities to the global total number of facilities. Europe imports most of the uranium consumed by its nuclear power plants as ore, having very little mining production in the region itself
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