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Pulling revision metadata, checking activity spikes, and preparing the charts.
Last edited Jun 28, 2026
10,410
Total Edits
2,871
Unique Editors
10/10
Controversy Score
2002
Created
1,105
Watchers
24%
Minor Edits
16K
Monthly Views
20
Edits (90d)
The Wikipedia article on Nuclear power has been edited 10,410 times by 2,871 different editors since it was created roughly 24 years ago in 2002. That works out to an average of about 434 edits per year, though activity is rarely spread evenly — most articles see long quiet stretches punctuated by short bursts of intense editing.
With a controversy score of 10/10, this is one of the more contested articles on English Wikipedia. A score this high means edits are frequently reverted — editors are undoing each other's work rather than building on it, which is the classic signature of an active dispute over how the subject should be described. Readers should treat sections of this article as potentially unstable, and check the talk page to understand what the disagreements are about.
Within the 500 most recent revisions we analysed, the single most active contributor is Ita140188, responsible for about 12% of the changes in that window. That is a fairly healthy spread, suggesting the article is maintained by a broad community rather than dominated by any one voice. The busiest year in our data was 2025, when editing activity peaked — spikes like this usually line up with real-world news events involving the subject.
The sections that show up most often in edit summaries are Production, Origins, Debate on nuclear power, Debate, top. These are the parts of the article that editors revisit most — a useful shortcut to where the action, and any disagreement, is concentrated.
All figures above are computed live from Wikipedia's public revision data. For a deeper explanation of what these numbers mean, see our guides on edit wars, article quality ratings, and how to read an edit history.
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Showing last 500 edits — 2022 to 2026
Last 24 months from Wikimedia Analytics
Sections appearing most in edit summaries.
| # | Editor | Edits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ita140188 | 61 | |
| 2 | Avatar317 | 39 | |
| 3 | Walter Tau | 37 | |
| 4 | Citation bot | 22 | |
| 5 | Boundarylayer | 20 | |
| 6 | TuomoS | 19 | |
| 7 | NPguy | 18 | |
| 8 | Boutboul | 14 | |
| 9 | AnomieBOT | 13 | |
| 10 | Z1720 | 13 |