Nuclear power output hits record

“Nuclear reactors generated a record 2,702 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2025, up from 2,667 terawatt-hours in 2024, the previous record. The vast majority of that growth occurred in Asia. China is engaged in a particularly large nuclear buildout: the country has connected five gigawatt-scale nuclear reactors to the grid during the past year and is home to 38 of the 80 nuclear reactors currently under construction worldwide,” reports Human Progress.

World Nuclear News says that nuclear power capacity “could reach 1,457 GWe by 2050 if all national targets and goals are achieved and the existing fleet continues to operate. With current operating capacity being 423 GWe, that projected figure would be 200 GWe more than a tripling of the current levels….New capacity under construction increased to 82 GWe, with eleven reactors starting construction in 2025.”

Nuclear power has risen by about 80% in China since 2016.

Despite having lots of oil, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently built four nuclear power reactors.

Right now, nuclear energy produces about 19% of the electricity generated in America. Nuclear energy produces no greenhouse gas emissions or air pollution. Nuclear plants generate most electric power in countries like France and Slovakia, but in the U.S., it has been much more difficult and costly to construct a nuclear power plant.

A sodium-cooled nuclear power plant was recently approved in Wyoming. “Sodium cooling allows reactors to operate at higher temperatures and lower pressures than conventional water-cooled plants, which can improve efficiency. The design will also include thermal storage, allowing the reactor to store energy as heat during periods of low demand,” reports The Doomslayer.

A nuclear plant in Florida is helping crocodiles thrive. Russia signed an agreement with Ethiopia to build a nuclear power plant.

Nuclear power is already “the safest form of energy we have, if you consider deaths per megawatt of energy produced,” notes Yale University’s Steven Novella. “Wind turbines, surprisingly, kill more people than nuclear plants,” notes an environmentalist. And “solar panels require 17 times more materials in the form of cement, glass, concrete, and steel than do nuclear plants, and create over 200 times more waste,” such as “dust from toxic heavy metals including lead, cadmium, and chromium.”

Nuclear plants emit no air pollution, only harmless steam. Unlike wind farms, nuclear power plants don’t kill birds. The biggest utility that generates wind power pleaded guilty to federal crimes for killing 150 eagles.