八十年代被认为是核能工业将在全世界迅速兴起并用以大量发电的十年。经济合作与发展组织曾于1970年预计,该组织的西欧、北美及日本各成员国,到1985年将拥有56.3万兆瓦的核发电能力——大约等于这些国家现有全部发电能力的一半。在八十年代,一年可望建立100多座核电厂,其中许多是建在第三世界。 The 1980s are considered to be the decade in which nuclear power industry will rapidly emerge in the world and generate huge power. It was estimated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1970 that the Organization’s member countries of Western Europe, North America and Japan will have 563,000 megawatts of nuclear power generation capacity by 1985 - equivalent to about half of all existing power generation capacity in these countries. In the 1980s, it is expected that more than 100 nuclear power plants will be established in a year, many of them built in the Third World.