France remains committed to nuclear power, which provides nearly four-fifths of its electricity, and exports both electricity and nuclear-power reactors.
Cheney said the administration's proposal would include calls to generate more electricity through nuclear power.
Lithuania, the Slovak Republic and Belgium also derive more than half of their electricity from nuclear plants.
But the region gets roughly 30% of its electricity from nuclear power plants, and each plant needs prodigious amounts of water.
For one thing, Germany obtains about 35% of its electricity from nuclear reactors.
The idea is that Russia and Ukraine should jointly develop and operate Ukraine's energy resources, including electricity and nuclear generation, and sales.
With 104 operating reactors, the United States produces more electricity with nuclear power than any of the 30 countries with that capability.
Both are by-products of the process that produces electricity inside nuclear reactors.
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Right now, America gets about one-fifth of our electricity from nuclear energy.
The Scandinavian country, which was hard hit by oil price rises in the 1970s, now gets the majority of its electricity from nuclear and hydroelectric power.
Finland and France, which produces more of its electricity in nuclear plants than any other big country, each have under construction a plant of the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) design developed by AREVA, a French industrial group.
France generates 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear, and its state-owned firms are world leaders: Paris-based EDF is the largest operator of nuclear power plants worldwide, while Areva is the largest provider of nuclear services and technology.
Japan gets approximately one-third of its electricity from nuclear power plants, and the disaster zone was home to three separate major nuclear facilities, two of which are experiencing failures so deep that mitigation efforts are likely to take them offline permanently.
Even though the plant shut down the production of electricity, the nuclear reaction keeps generating heat.
But asking what price the nuclear electricity will be is proving a much tougher wrangle.
Consider that in March 2011, Germany received 25 percent of its electricity from 17 nuclear reactors.
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Instead of putting taxpayers money into Hinkley, ministers would fix the price of the new nuclear electricity.
Germany, which in 2011 produced 5% of the world's nuclear electricity, is abandoning it, as are some smaller countries.
In many power markets today, nuclear electricity is the cheapest you can buy.
Ultimately, it is hoped, much of the energy for these tasks might be supplied in the form of nuclear electricity.
Ironically, Germany, once a net power exporter, now imports electricity from French nuclear facilities and fossil-powered plants in neighboring countries.
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More than a quarter of all German electricity comes from nuclear power.
Instead the government is set to fix the future price of new nuclear electricity, to give investors the certainty of a future income stream.
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In a deal with America ten years ago, North Korea had agreed to stop making plutonium, in return for which America and its allies would supply the country with fuel and build two nuclear electricity generators from which it is difficult to produce weapons-grade materials.
While Germany is indeed one of the global leaders in renewable energy it derived about 16 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in 2009 it is difficult to see how it would manage to replace the approximately 27 percent of electricity derived from nuclear power with renewable sources by 2035.
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With 104 operating reactors, the United States already produces more nuclear power than any country in the world, but only about 20% of the country's electricity is generated from nuclear plants.
The new nuclear power station will provide only a fraction of Pakistan's growing electricity needs, but supporters of the country's nuclear programme say nuclear power is the answer to increasing electricity demands.
The existing traditional network will also need to be upgraded to accommodate electricity from new power stations, including nuclear, the report by the Electricity Networks Strategy Group for the government said.
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