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Pakistan has six operating reactors . Because Pakistan is outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty due to its weapons programme, it is largely excluded from trade in nuclear plant or materials, which hinders its development of civil nuclear energy.

Ukraine is heavily dependent on nuclear energy – it has 15 reactors generating about half of its electricity.

Ukraine is heavily dependent on nuclear energy – it has 15 reactors generating about half of its electricity.

India has a largely indigenous nuclear power programme and has ambitious plans to expand nuclear capacity. The country has a vision of becoming a world leader in nuclear technology due to its expertise in fast reactors and thorium fuel cycle.

Australia has a relatively small amount of low-level radioactive waste and rather less volume of intermediate-level waste (ILW). A national repository for both categories of the Commonwealth's wastes is planned.

Spain generates about a fifth of its electricity from nuclear power. Its first commercial nuclear power reactor began operating in 1968. There are plans for renewed uranium mining. Government commitment to nuclear energy has been uncertain.

Nuclear waste is neither particularly hazardous nor hard to manage relative to other toxic industrial wastes. The amount of radioactive waste is very small relative to wastes produced by fossil fuel electricity generation. Safe methods for the final disposal of high-level rad...

Australia has a relatively small amount of low-level radioactive waste and rather less volume of intermediate-level waste (ILW). A national repository for both categories of the Commonwealth's wastes is planned.

The USA's reactors provide about 20% of its electricity. These have a high level of performance. 

Representatives of nuclear industry trade associations and professional societies have issued a statement regarding the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.