Nuclear Reactor Kinetics Nuclear Power Plants Countries List

Future of nuclear power in the aftermath of the fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 germany switzerland and belgium have decided to stop nuclear production completely by 2022.

Nuclear weapons limitation treaties india dijajah oleh. Ukraine and japan are still operating nuclear power plants despite serious accidents at chernobyl in 1986 and fukushima in 2011. Nuclear power plants currently operate in 30 countries. Japans fukushima daini nuclear power plant became the sixth largest nuclear power station in asia after japans kansai electric power co announced its plans to decommission the remaining two reactor units of the oi power plant.

The fukushima daini has four operational boiling water reactors with a net electric output of about 1100 mw each. Ukraine which suffered from chernobyl the worst nuclear disaster of all time plans to add 11 more reactors to its existing 15 plants to double nuclear power. 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.

Industry body the world nuclear association says nuclear power is a safe means of generating electricity and that the risk of accidents at plants is low and declining. This is a list of all the commercial nuclear reactors in the world sorted by country with operational status. Some 408 nuclear reactors were in operation in 31 countries as of july 2020 a decline of 9 units from mid 2019 and 30 fewer than the 2002 peak of 438 the annual world nuclear industry status.

In light of the situation at japans fukushima daiichi plant more people are rethinking their relationships to nuclear power. Even though only around 30 of the worlds 200 odd countries are currently operating nuclear power plants it turns out that most people in the world either live in those countries or live in countries bordering. 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.

Ukraine still has 15 operational reactors compared to japans nine. Anti nuclear campaigners say the high cost of nuclear means the money would be better spent on renewables and energy efficiency.