Only tangentially related but: this kind of map is really a good use case for Wikidata and its query service, I think. For instance here's how to get something similar: <a href="https://w.wiki/4wz" rel="nofollow">https://w.wiki/4wz</a><p>Drawbacks: not all reactors are known and not all the data is currently here.<p>Advantages: took me 2 minutes to write, and the underlying data can be edited by anyone to keep it up to date.
A singular voting issue for me would be replacing all the nuclear power plants in the U.S. Maybe even doubling the count over the next two decades.<p>We are running a huge risk not replacing them as they age. If one of the plants have a meltdown it's going to ruin any support to have them replaced. The U.S. keeps these plants so they can make nuclear weapons very quickly, but also the power is relatively clean / contained.
It's a little scary seeing that pretty much every US plant was built in the 60s-70s. I know Nuclear has been controversial for a long time but 50 years is a little ridiculous.
The current construction being done in China is really interesting. Come what may, nuclear power it is a sophisticated and technically excellent way of securing energy. China's strategy of long-term technical success really shines through.<p>They might be serious about shutting down their coal burners. That is a real commitment to clean air and energy security - they are doing something different. Minor compared to the current business-as-usual perhaps, but they make iterative change work.
France clearly stands out in this map. As a result, the country is the world's leader in using few carbon resources:<p>Share of electricity produced from oil, gas and coal in 2015.<p>Indonesia: 89%<p>Australia: 86%<p>Netherlands: 82%<p>India: 81%<p>Nigeria: 81%<p>Japan: 80%<p>Saudi: 76%<p>China: 73%<p>Turkey: 67%<p>US: 67%<p>Russia: 65%<p>Italy: 59%<p>Germany: 55%<p>UK: 53%<p>Spain: 43%<p>Brazil: 23%<p>France: 6%<p>(World Bank)
Related:
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/srep13945/figures/1" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/srep13945/figures/1</a><p>An awesome map of antineutrino emissions from the earth, which doubles as a map of operating nuclear plants.
Poor Japan. I can understand taking plants down in the aftermath of Fukushima to fix them up and take safeguards that there wouldn't be a repeat, but what the hell are they doing letting all that generating potential sit idle years later?
Related: an official map of US power reactors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, <a href="https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/map-power-reactors.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/map-power-reactors.ht...</a>
This map lists "nuclear power plants" and therefore is missing research reactors.<p>Any research reactor contains a critical mass of fuel, and therefore is fully capable of meltdown.