Good news or bad news? -- Why do you want to develop nuclear power

Apart from the above six countries and regions, there are many more countries and regions that have been colored on the map. The countries in dark blue are those that already have and are building new nuclear power plants, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the US had a long moratorium on nuclear power after Three Mile Island, but restarted its construction and approval during the Obama administration, and the first post-Three Mile Island US nuclear power plant was connected to the grid in 2016). In addition to South Africa, the remaining three BRIC countries are Ukraine, Pakistan, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Argentina, which were devastated by Chernobyl. You can see that these countries actually account for the majority of the world's population, land and GDP. Holding and developing nuclear power is still the mainstream of the world. The countries painted in light blue on the map are those that already have nuclear power but are not building any, including Canada, Iran, Mexico, South Africa and the European countries of Sweden, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Most of these countries do not need to build new nuclear plants because they are already self-sufficient in electricity and their economies are either growing slowly or at a pace commensurate with renewable energy.

Highlighted in dark green on the map are countries that are building their first nuclear power plants, including Belarus, also affected by Chernobyl; Turkey, which has long hoped to become the hegemon of the Middle East; Egypt, which has suffered power outages after several coups; and the United Arab Emirates, which has more oil than it can use. The UAE, in particular, as a pure oil exporter, could have used oil-fired power stations for cheap electricity. But the UAE is not only actively developing photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation, it has also invested in the construction of its first nuclear power plant. This suggests that, at least in the eyes of the UAE government, nuclear power is one of the alternatives to thermal power.

Many of the countries in light green are building their first nuclear power plants, not to mention one example. In turn, let's talk about why these countries, which have not been colored, are indifferent to nuclear power. A closer look at the map shows that countries with no interest in nuclear power include countries in central Africa that are still struggling to feed themselves; countries in the Middle East that are at war; countries in Central Asia; the Philippines, Laos, and Myanmar in Southeast Asia; the dismembered states of the former Yugoslavia; Greece, whose government is on the brink of bankruptcy; and small countries in the Caribbean. These countries simply do not have the capacity to build nuclear power, or the world will not allow them to do so (such as Syria and Iraq).