The following charts show the percentage of electricity production by fuel source in France in two years. Report the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The two pie charts illustrate the proportion of

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generated in the country of France for 1990 and 2010 by five different energies, coal, oil, natural gas, hydro and nuclear

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.

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, it can be seen that nuclear

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's total production in 1990 was next to

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became the majority

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source in 2010,

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hydropower was still the minority one.

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in 1990, natural gas and coal contributed an identical percentage of

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in France, which make up just over a quarter of the total, 28%.

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compared with the two dominant

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resources, oil produced slightly below them with just under a quarter of the total, 22%. The remaining 23% of

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was composed of nuclear

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and hydropower with 17% and 6% respectively. Looking into the information for more details, nuclear

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embraced a boom in generating electrical

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, and the total proportion of

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produced by nuclear

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was set to increase by a factor of four, from 17% to almost 68% (67%). In 2010, there were still two fuel sources that produced the same amount of

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,

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, they were coal and oil with 13%, not coal and natural.

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, natural gas drastically dropped to just 4% of the fuel source for electrical output and the remaining 2% of

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was produced using hydropower.