The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to nuclear power:

Nuclear power – the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity,^[1] with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity.^[2]

Nuclear power can be described as all of the following:

• Nuclear technology (outline) – technology that involves the reactions of atomic nuclei. Among the notable nuclear technologies are nuclear power, nuclear medicine, and nuclear weapons. It has found applications from smoke detectors to nuclear reactors, and from gun sights to nuclear weapons.
• Electricity generation – the process of generating electric energy from other forms of energy. The fundamental principles of electricity generation were discovered during the 1820s and early 1830s by the British scientist Michael Faraday. His basic method is still used today: electricity is generated by the movement of a loop of wire, or disc of copper between the poles of a magnet.^[3]

• Nuclear engineering
• Nuclear chemistry
• Nuclear fission
• Nuclear physics
  • Atomic nucleus
  • Ionizing radiation
  • Nuclear fission
  • Radiation
  • Radioactivity
• Radioisotope thermoelectric generator
• Steam generator (nuclear power)

• Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
• Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States
• Radioactive waste
• Nuclear proliferation
• Nuclear terrorism
• Radioactive contamination

• 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents
• 1986 List of Chernobyl-related articles
• 1985 Soviet submarine K-431
• 1979 Three Mile Island accident
• 1968 Soviet submarine K-27
• 1961 Soviet submarine K-19

History of nuclear power

• Atomic Energy Commission (disambiguation)
• History of uranium
• Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
• United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (1946-1948)
• United States Atomic Energy Commission (1946-1974)
• Nuclear renaissance

• Environmental impact of nuclear power
• Nuclear renaissance
• Relative cost of electricity generated by different sources

• Nuclear power in space
• Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator

• Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
• Anti-nuclear movement
• Anti-nuclear movement in Germany
• Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
• Anti-nuclear power movement in Japan
• Anti-nuclear protests
• Anti-nuclear protests in the United States
• Nuclear energy policy
• Nuclear power debate
• Nuclear power phase-out
• Nuclear power proposed as renewable energy
• Nuclear whistleblowers
• Nuclear renaissance
• Uranium mining debate

See also Nuclear regulatory agencies, above

• Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
• International Nuclear Safety Center

• Nuclear Power and the Environment
• Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option
• World Nuclear Industry Status Report
• In Mortal Hands

• Scientists
  • Enrico Fermi – an American physicist
  • James Chadwick
• Politicians
  • Harry Truman
  • Ed Markey
  • Naoto Kan
  • Nobuto Hosaka
  • Angela Merkel
• Engineers
  • David Lochbaum
  • Arnold Gundersen
  • George Galatis

• Fusion power
• Future energy development
• German nuclear energy project
  • Inertial fusion power plant
• Linear no-threshold model
• Polywell
• World energy resources and consumption