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Date: 05/09/02
- MORE than 2 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity;
- Nuclear power plants generate around 17 of the world's electricity;
- Within 20 years, it is estimated that Russia could be supplying up to 40 of the EU's gas needs;
- There are more than 140 nuclear reactors in the EU, producing 35 of its electricity;
- In Lithuania, 85 of energy is derived from nuclear sources;
- Finland and Sweden were the first member states to introduce energy liberalisation;
- More than ten million 'transports' of radioactive material take place around the world each year;
- In Germany, 700 gas and 900 electricity firms compete for a share of the market;
- In the past 40 years, about 30,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel has been transported around the world, across distances totalling more than 25 million kilometres;
- The European Parliament has forecast that green energy could account for 35-50 of the EU's power needs by 2020;
- There are 10,000 wind turbines in Germany;
- The cost of coal production in the EU is four-to-five times the average world price;
- The cost of oil production in the EU is two-to-seven times the world price, with eight years' reserve supply;
- Natural gas: 20 years' reserve supply; Uranium: 40 years' reserve supply.
Article is part of a European Voice survey on energy.
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