Abstract
In many ways nuclear energy is a fantastic success: a completely new source of energy now producing, or soon scheduled to produce, about 20 exajoules per year or almost 10 percent of all the energy man now produces. This energy will come from approximately 500 large reactors in 36 countries (see figure 1). These reactors, if replaced by oil-fired power plants, would require about 107 barrels of oil per day—that is, about one-seventh of all the oil produced in the world. Were the output of these plants used for electric resistive heating, in principle 5×106 barrels of oil per heating day could be displaced; if used to recharge electric vehicles, perhaps 10×106 barrels.
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