The United Nations estimates that energy demand will grow significantly as the global population of 6.6 billion increases to 9 billion by 2050. To avoid damaging changes to our ecosystem, the UN states that greenhouse gas emissions must, by 2050, be cut by 70%. The International Energy Agency estimates that today’s installed nuclear power of 370 GW represents 6.3% of world primary energy consumption. If total primary energy consumption doubles by 2050, 85% of energy must be supplied by clean technologies in order to attain a 70% reduction in CO₂ from 2000 levels. Even with renewable energy growing exponentially to over 2,400 GW by 2050, nuclear energy would need to grow to the 6,000 GW to meet the total Clean Energy need of 9,990 GW in 2050 ¹.