Electrification of France national economy on the base of accelerated growth of nuclear power

The role of nuclear power in the development of France economy is analysed. Dynamics of economy and power engineering development in 1970-2000, gross domestic product growth rates, dynamics of structure of power resource consumption for electric power production, growth rates of basic labour and industrial product indices are considered. Advance of electric power consumption as compared to primary fuel and power resource consumption is stressed. The French NPP installed capacity in 1985 made up 37.5 GW or 43% of the capacity of all the electric power stations. 390 TWxh of electric power will be produced in France in 2000 which will make up 81.3% of the total production