Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Kungiyar da ke tsakanin bangarori daga MIT ta kiyasta cewa idan aka yi la'akari da ci gaban da ake tsammani na makamashin nukiliya daga 2005 zuwa 2055, aƙalla za a yi tsammanin aƙalla ɓarnar ɓarna huɗu a cikin wannan lokacin (a zaton kawai an yi amfani da ƙirar "yanzu" <unk> yawan abubuwan da ake tsammani a cikin wannan lokacin tare da amfani da ƙirar ci gaba ɗaya ne kawai). Zuwa yau, an sami lamuran lalacewar tsakiya guda biyar a duniya tun daga 1970 (ɗaya a
Three Mile Island a shekarar 1979; daya a Chernobyl a shekarar 1986; da uku a Fukushima-Daiichi a shekarar 2011), wanda ya dace da farkon aiki da na'urori masu aiki na ƙarni na II.