The rise and fall of nuclear power & biggest nuclear power plants - 1954 - 2025

🆕 New on datagrapha: Visualization of driver's & constructor's points 1950 - 2026    • Visualization of driver's & constructor's ...   A visual history of marathon record times    • A visual history of marathon record times   Is Moore's law dead?    • Is Moore's law dead?   Who is StarCraft II's GOAT?    • Who is StarCraft II's GOAT?   What football player is worth the most?    • What football player is worth the most?   A complete history of nuclear power production - from the beginnings, where power was mainly a byproduct of weapons-grade plutionium production and research, to the golden age of nuclear power, where it seemed like it will be the dominating energy source of the future, to its disasters, which destroyed its public image and lead to a decrease in global nuclear power production. Music: Letter Box - Far the Days Come (YouTube audio library) Sources: 1) Nuclear reactors and their power output: List of Power Plants taken from Wikipedia (2019-06-30) (see Methods) 2) Total energy generation: OECD (2017), Electricity generation (indicator). doi: 10.1787/c6e6caa2-en (Accessed on 30 August 2017) 3) Energy Information Administration (www.eia.gov) - primary power production (1980 - 2016) 4) IAEA PRIS (https://www.world-nuclear.org/informa...) (2016 - 2017) 5) IAEA PRIS (https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStati...) (2018) 6) World Bank - Electricity production from nuclear sources - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/... (1960 - 2015) Methods: Percentage of Nuclear power 4), 5), 6) Rest of data extrapolated with help of 1), 2) Total nuclear power per year: 2), missing data generated from 1) Most powerful plant: 1) Sum of nominal max net power output of their individual reactors on a yearly basis Short-term outtages for reactors are not taken into account, longer shutdowns for years reduce that reactor's graphed output to zero if the outtage is more than half of the year #datagrapha