Nuclear Power Plants In The World

Over 50 countries utilise nuclear energy in about 220 research reactors.

Nuclear fusion kgatlw nuclear power list. List of all nuclear reactors in operation across the world including country of origin name type of reactor capacity date connected to the grid. In 2010 before the fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster it was reported that an average of about 10 nuclear reactors were expected to become. The 5448mw gross cattenom nuclear power plant is located in cattenom france.

India has ambitious plans to increase its nuclear capacity as part of its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 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.

Africa has just one operating nuclear power station at koeburg in south africa. Cattenom nuclear power plant consists of four pwrs rated at 1362mw each. The power plant is owned and operated by edf.

This is a list of all the commercial nuclear reactors in the world sorted by country with operational status. Nuclear is the worlds second largest source of low carbon power 29 of the total in 2018. The net capacity of the plant is 5200mw which is similar to that of paluel npp the seventh largest nuclear power plant in the world.

Nuclear power plants currently operate in 30 countries. In addition to research these reactors are used for the production of medical and industrial isotopes as well as for training. Surprisingly perhaps india has one of the worlds oldest operating nuclear power stations the 47 year old tarapur plant.