Which country produces the most nuclear power?

Answer 1

Difficult to pin down. If we are talking bombs, these were developed in WW2 in the Manhattan project. This took place in the US-this was probably inevitable as the facilities could be built there out of range of enemy attacks, which could have been a problem in the UK, which would have been the only alternative. Most of the scientists and engineers were US citizens, but there were others, notably British, and for example Enrico Fermi who was still Italian up to 1944. I believe Einstein also played a part by writing to President Roosevelt urging this project, even before the US entered the war. Einstein was worried the German Nazis would get the bomb, he knew they were working on it. Was Einstein then a US citizen? I'm not sure. Luckily the German project was disrupted by the war and they never got there.

In terms of energy used for power production, the first reactors to do this were at Calder Hall in the UK, in 1956. These were magnox reactors. Meanwhile the US had developed the PWR on a small scale for nuclear submarines, they were first with that. I'm not sure when the first PWR was used for power production, but guess it was about 1958. Can anyone fill this in?

After World War II Canada decided to focus on peaceful applications of nuclear energy as opposed to the military aspects that the U.S. specialized in, primarily because Canada was the principal source of uranium used to fuel nuclear weapons as well as electrical power plants. This national effort resulted in innovative designs for nuclear power plants that became standard internationally as Canada exported these important additional sources of electrical power to countries that needed to increase electrical energy production to fuel industrial and modern residential development.

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Thus Canadian designed and built nuclear reactors circle the globe today as many countries utilize this source of energy.

Answer 2

U.S.A. United States of America.

Answer 3

USA.

Answer 4

The USA