130 new nuclear power plants to be built within 15 years – IAEA

About 130 new nuclear power plants may be built in the world in the next 15 years, a deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said at an international conference in Moscow Wednesday. Yury Sokolov told the conference, Multilateral Technical and Organizational Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle to Strengthen the Non-Proliferation Regime, that 440 nuclear power plants produced 16% of the world’s electricity.
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