12 EU countries with nuclear electricity production generated 649 524 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in 2024, an increase of 4.8% compared with 2023, according to Eurostat.
The figures, released by the EU’s statistics agency, show that this was the second consecutive year with a rise since the 2022 decrease (609 255 GWh). Nuclear power plants accounted for 23.3% of the total electricity production in the EU.
The EU’s largest nuclear producer, France, generated 58.6% of the EU’s nuclear power (380 451 GWh). Spain followed with 54 510 GWh (8.4%), ahead of Sweden (50 665 GWh; 7.8%) and Finland (32 599 GWh; 5.0%).
Compared with 2023, nuclear electricity production increased the most in France (+12.5%), followed by Sweden (4.5%) and Slovenia (+4.2%). The other producers of nuclear electricity registered an average decrease of 4%, varying between -0.6% in Slovakia and -10.3% in the Netherlands.
Germany was the second-largest producer in the EU up until 2021, having terminated nuclear production completely in April 2023.
The EU countries most reliant on nuclear electricity in 2024 were France (67.3% of all electricity generated) and Slovakia (61.6%). In Hungary, Bulgaria, Belgium, Finland and Czechia, around 40% of all electricity generated was nuclear. By contrast, only 2.9% of electricity produced in the Netherlands came from nuclear power plants.
