Other energy sources, such as hydro power solar, and wind power are extremely safe.
The technology is being deployed in the reservoir of a hydro power plant at Caderache in southern France.
Quebec relies on hydro power and, says Bernard Landry, its premier, has cleaned up its pulp and aluminium industries.
More than 20 years on from Chernobyl, nuclear provides 6.5% of the world's energy--three times as much as hydro power.
It also purchased a nearby coal mine to stoke the plant and concessions on two hydro power producers in eastern Kazakhstan.
After all, Scotland already has 18% of its energy needs supplied by clean sources, including hydro power, three years ahead of schedule.
Renewable energy production (excluding hydro power), meanwhile, more than doubled between 2004 and 2011 thought it still accounts for just under 5% of total electricity generation.
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Australian start-up Sunengy is partnering with Tata Power of India to develop a similar solar system for the reservoir of a hydro power plant in Mumbai.
"The club needs a guaranteed source of income, and we have the ideal conditions for hydro power, " the Financial Times quoted a Trabzon club official as saying.
China produces merely 1 percent of its electricity from non-hydro renewable power, while the United States produces 5 percent of its electricity from non-hydro renewable power.
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So they did for the hydro-power companies, which were within days of enforced electricity rationing.
That water is then released through tunnels to generate hydro electric power at times when consumers need it.
His grandfather installed hydro-power in the 1930s, providing lights for the house as well as powering farm machinery including the milking machine.
The commission has long run the St Lawrence hydro-power project at Cornwall, Ontario, and regulated the river flow without dispute or political interference.
Energy-efficiency and fuel-switching, for example, accounted for 40% of the projects started last year, while biomass, wind- and hydro-power made up another 24%.
Brazil needs it to help feed its rivers and generate hydro-power.
Eden Valley initiatives include a campaign to get people to buy locally, moves to supply fast broadband services to rural areas and a hydro-power scheme for the River Eden.
Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution (SHEPD) has organised eight mobile hot food outlets in Argyll and Arran, while 18 large generators and 50 smaller sets have been installed in the areas.
But their chief concern at the moment is the security of a Chinese construction firm which is building a hydro-power project on the Indus river in the Dubair area of Kohistan.
However, this region needs integrated hydro-power development and conservation planning so that the trade-offs between energy production and other ecosystem services, particularly those vital for the survival of the people that depend on them, are better understood before such dams are developed.
Mr Simplot himself, an avowed lover of skiing, duck shooting and the great outdoors, was attacked in the 1970s for his support for new coal-fired electricity plants along the Snake river and for a scheme to generate hydro-power by diverting water from another river into a vast underground tube.
And if all fossil-fuel power plants were converted to nuclear or hydro-electric power, a 35% reduction in emissions would result.
Under Babar's tutelage the Punjab government is installing several small hydro and solar power plants.
In the long-term China is also investing heavily in hydro-electrical power and another renewable energies.
Israel has expressed interest in investing in such unobjectionable concerns as agriculture and hydro-electric power.
At the time, Brazil was 93% dependent on hydro-electric power and a drought had left many reservoirs very low.
In countries that can, and do, use hydro as a power source, the competition for contracts is becoming fierce.
It is then released through a number of turbines to generate electricity in the same way as hydro-electric power plants work.
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The first hydro-electric power station was set up in Mysore in 1902.
Few other countries that depend heavily on hydro-electric power, which in turn depends on unpredictable rainfall, have so far dared to liberalise.
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