'[3] The report also reached the conclusion that Small Modular Reactors are unlikely to play any significant role in the future energy landscape.

Nuclear power plants generated 2,441 net terawatt-hours (TWh or billion kilowatt-hours) of electricity in 2015, a 1.3 percent increase.

[7] The report details a range of restart scenarios for Japan's nuclear reactor fleet which, as of September 2013,[8] were all shutdown.

Nuclear power's share of global commercial primary energy production plunged to 4.5 percent, a level last seen in 1984.

World atomic power production dropped by a record 4.3% in 2011 as the Great Recession and the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan prompted plant shutdowns and slowed construction of new sites.

[11] The report shows that following the Fukushima crisis in March 2011, Germany, Switzerland and Taiwan announced their withdrawal from nuclear power.

[11] The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010-2011 is authored by Mycle Schneider, Antony Froggatt, and Steve Thomas and published by the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute.

Moreover, says the report, it is clear that nuclear power development cannot keep up with the pace of renewable energy commercialization.

The report was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety.

[16] The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 was commissioned by the Greens-EFA Group in the European Parliament.