Infographic: Nuclear Power, From 5 MW to 9% of the World’s Electricity
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Seventy years separate the 5-megawatt Obninsk reactor from a fleet of more than 400 reactors supplying roughly a tenth of the world's electricity. Three accidents, at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, set the industry back by decades each time; today's revival is driven by grid demand from data centres and by climate targets.
Figures are from the International Atomic Energy Agency's PRIS database and the International Energy Agency.
Sources: IAEA, IEA
