Nuclear Power Plants Around The World

Nuclear power plants currently operate in 30 countries.

Nuclear power plants ny sci hub to. Significant further capacity is being created by plant upgrading. 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. About 50 more reactors are under construction equivalent to approximately 15 of existing capacity.

In 2010 before the fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster it was reported that an average of about 10 nuclear reactors were expected to become. Reactors under constuction operational and permanently shut down. 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.

Today there are about 440 nuclear power reactors operating in 30 countries plus taiwan with a combined capacity of about 400 gwe. According to the nuclear energy agency new nuclear power stations in the uk such as the planned hinkley point c plant would be the worlds most costly. Today nuclear power plants worldwide operate on average about 80 percent of the time.

In earlier years they were shut down for longer periods with closer to a 55 percent in service rate. Around 10 of the worlds electricity is generated by about 440 nuclear power reactors. 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.

More stringent safety standards and construction delays also added to costs and enthusiasm for new nuclear wanedthis has been described as a case of negative learning by doing with nuclear costs increasing as capacity has grown. Plant lifetime extension programmes are maintaining capacity particularly in the usa. In 2019 nuclear plants supplied 2657 twh of electricity up from 2563 twh in 2018.

The following page lists all nuclear power stations that are larger than 1000 mw in current net capacity.