Thirteen EU countries with nuclear electricity production generated 609,255 GWh (all figures are gross) of nuclear electricity in 2002, down 16.7% compared with 2021, according to figures released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Eurostat said this is the lowest level registered in the period from 1990, the first year for which comparable data are available for all EU countries.

Nuclear power plants accounted for over one-fifth (21.8%) of the total electricity production in the bloc.