Economic Importance of Nuclear Energy

Public electricity provision from power stations in 1994 in the FRG, net (in TWh)  

An important precondition for future energy provision is climate protection. Since the beginning of industrialization the C02-concentration in the Earth s atmosphere has increased from 283 ppm to 354 ppm. This is predominantly due to increasing combustion of coal, oil and natural gas. It has been scientifically proved that the increase in so-called greenhouse gases in the air, brings about a climatically relevant heat contribution in the Earth s atmosphere in the radiation equilibrium between solar radiation and reradiation from the Earth. Complicated secondary effects can both ameliorate and exacerbate this. 

Probable climate change due to ever increasing consumption of fossil fuels worldwide and consequent increase in C02-emission 

Reduction in C02-emission only possible by immediate reduction in fossil fuel energy consumption 

Fuel cycle costs in nuclear power stations (January 1995, PtVkWh)  

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