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Mr. Skeet
asked the Secretary of State for Energy what are the current nuclear programmes in each European Economic Community country and the targets for 1985 and 1990; and what is the percentage of total electricity likely to be achieved by nuclear generation in each country by 1985.
Mr. Norman Lamont
The Commission of the European Communities has made the following assessment of current nuclear capacity and projected nuclear capacity for 1985 and 1990 for each member State. The percentage of total electricity likely to be generated
| NUCLEAR GENERATING CAPACITY | ||||||||||
| At end 1977 | At end 1985 | gigawatts At end 1990 | ||||||||
| Belgium | … | … | … | … | … | … | 1·4 | 5·1 (37) | 6·4 | |
| Denmark | … | … | … | … | … | … | — | — | 2·6 | |
| Eire | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | — | — | 0·6 |
| France | … | … | … | … | … | … | 4·6 | 38·5 (44) | 58·0 | |
| Italy | … | … | … | … | … | … | 0·6 | 7·4 (11) | 33·4 | |
| Luxembourg | … | … | … | … | … | — | — | — | ||
| Netherlands | … | … | … | … | … | 0·5 | 0·5 (3) | 1·5 | ||
| West Germany | … | … | … | … | … | 5·6 | 24·0(22) | 40·0 | ||
| United Kingdom | … | … | … | … | … | 5·9 | 9·4 (11) | 12·3 | ||
| (Figures in brackets show nuclear capacity as a percentage of total electricity generating capacity) | ||||||||||