Nuclear Energy and Its Future

For a sustainable economic growth and energy future, nuclear energy is considered as an indispensable resource. An alternative to primary energy resources, nuclear power reactors bring advantages regarding the electrical energy production. Nuclear power plants supply the needs of the countries they are built in and reduce dependency to foreign countries. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the share of nuclear energy in the energy sector, to put forward the geographical distribution of nuclear energy in the world, the importance of nuclear energy in countries’ energy use and the energy demand levels according to countries. An important resource in reducing dependency on oil and natural gas, nuclear energy is widely used specifically in western countries. Countries that are dependent on foreign countries in terms of primary energy resources economically grew thanks to nuclear energy by increasing their development pace. Despite the nuclear accident in Japan in 2011, it is not possible for countries that have this resource to abandon nuclear energy