Every Nuclear Power Plant In The World

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Nuclear weapons keep peace india acha acha. The following page lists all nuclear power stations that are larger than 1000 mw in current net capacity. Those power stations that are smaller than 1000 mw and those that are only at a planning or proposal stage may be found in regional lists at the end of the page or in the list of nuclear reactorsthe list is based on figures from pris power reactor information system maintained by. The list only includes civilian nuclear power reactors used to generate electricity for a power gridall commercial nuclear reactors use nuclear fissionas of april 2020 there are 440 operable power reactors in the world with a combined electrical capacity of 390 gw.

In 2010 before the fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster it was reported that an average of about 10 nuclear reactors were expected to become. Most are in europe north america east asia and south asiathe united states is the largest producer of nuclear power while france has the largest share of electricity generated by nuclear power. Nuclear is the worlds second largest source of low carbon power 29 of the total in 2018.

In addition to research these reactors are used for the production of medical and industrial isotopes as well as for training. This is a list of all the commercial nuclear reactors in the world sorted by country with operational status. New scientist using the world nuclear associations reactor database has made this helpful interactive map of the worlds nuclear power plants minus a few in south america and south africa.

Since nuclear power plants are only shut down for refuelling every two years or so they provide an around the clock baseload supply of power to the people. About 30 countries are considering planning or starting nuclear power programmes see information paper on emerging nuclear energy countries.