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The nuclear "capacity factor" — a measure of how much electricity reactors generate as a percentage of what they could provide — had dropped precipitously, from 71 percent in February to 51 percent in May, but it would plunge even further in subsequent months.

Many environmentalists believe the support on offer – guarantees of a minimum carbon price, caps on nuclear waste liabilities and a possible new "low-carbon obligation" which would guarantee a higher price for the electricity reactors generate – are forms of public subsidies.

Mr Kim had clearly been hoping that South Korea would provide an alternative source of the electricity the reactors are meant to provide, but it has so far refused.

Sergey Novikov, a spokesman, said that before the disaster, the Russian goal was to increase the fraction of electricity from reactors to 25 to 30 percent by 2030, from 16 percent now.

Without electricity, a reactor cannot be cooled and a meltdown can result.

India plans to produce 30% of its electricity from thorium reactors by 2050.

South Korea, which has no oil reserves, derives 40 percent of its electricity from nuclear reactors and is running out of space to store the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel.

PARIS — France gets about 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear reactors, and much of the uranium used for fuel is mined in Niger by Areva, the French nuclear company.

Japan got about 30 percent of its electricity from 54 reactors across the country — and planned to increase its reliance to 50 percent — before damage from a powerful tsunami in March 2011 led to multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and vast radiation leaks.

One major problem, said Murray E. Jennex, an associate professor at San Diego State University with 20 years of experience in examining nuclear containment structures, was that all the water the Japanese were spraying had soaked important machinery like generators and pumps, further hampering efforts to restore the reactors' electricity supply.

For one thing, Germany obtains about 35% of its electricity from nuclear reactors.