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According to the latest figures published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration in its "Electric Power Monthly" report released on 2010-02-13, renewable electricity enjoyed significant growth during the year 2009 while nuclear and coal both experienced notable declines.

The World Nuclear News reports that new estimates from the International Atomic Energy Agency show nuclear power generation is down for a third straight year, decreasing by another 2% in 2009.

Uranium production is in decline in Canada and Australia. France’s nuclear industry is in a bad way. Areva has debts of €40billion and has still to settle the claims of its Finnish customer, TVO. Its EPR has been found to be unsafe and its control system has to be re-designed.

“Prognos” expects the number of new nuclear power plants to decline by 29 per cent by the year 2030.