Nuclear power by country

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The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant in France. France produces 80% of its electricity by nuclear power.^[1]

Nuclear power is a method for generating energy by harnessing the radioactivity of atoms. Nuclear fission occurs when any fissile material, such as uranium-235, an isotope of uranium, is concentrated. This causes a nuclear chain reaction, which releases large amounts of heat, boiling water and producing steam, which can drive a steam turbine.

1 Nuclear power by country
- 1.1 Map
- 1.2 Table
2 Notes
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

Although nuclear power generates many megawatts of power, the waste produced and risks often make it a controversial choice. As a result, different nations have very different attitudes towards nuclear power; some, such as France, generate most of their electricity by nuclear power, while others, such as Italy, have decommissioned, or are planning to decommission, all of their nuclear power stations.

In addition to the nations listed below, several other nations, such as Australia, have research reactors, but no plans to diverge into commercial nuclear power; only the commercial reactors registered with the International Atomic Energy Agency are listed below. Nations are listed first by number of reactors, then by peak power output in megawatts. Regions in italics are added for comparison.

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[edit] Map

The status of nuclear power globally. Nations in dark green have reactors and are constructing new reactors, those in light green are constructing their first reactor, those in dark yellow are considering new reactors, those in light yellow are considering their first reactor, those in blue have reactors but are not constructing or decommissioning, those in light blue are considering decommissioning and those in red have decommissioned all their commercial reactors.

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Country	Number of reactors ^[2]	Power output ^[1] MW	Status of nuclear program ^[1]	Constructing	Planned or Ordered	Proposed
World	439	370,721		28	62	162
European Union (details), (List)	147	130,267		2		7
United States (details), (List)	104	99,209		1		24^[3]
France (details)	59	63,363	France produces 80% of its electricity by nuclear power.^[1]	1		1
Japan (details)	55	47,593		1	1
Russia (details)	31	21,743	Nuclear energy development program was adopted in October 2006^[4]	7	9	19
United Kingdom (details)	23	11,852	Expansion announced by UK government but Scotland opts out ^[5]^[6]^[7]
South Korea (details)	20	16,810			8
Canada (details)	18	12,599			2
Germany (details)	17	20,339	Considering decommissioning
India (details)	16	3,557		7	4	20
Ukraine	15	13,107			13 (by 2030)^[8]
Sweden (details)	10	8,910	Stable
People's Republic of China (details)	10	7,572		5	5	19
Spain (details)	8	7,446	Stable ^[9]
Belgium	7	5,824	Considering decommissioning
Taiwan (Republic of China) (details)	6	4,884		2
Czech Republic (details)	6	3,368				2
Slovakia	6	2,442				2
Switzerland (details)	5	3,220	Stable
Bulgaria (details)	4	2,722			2
Finland (details)	4	2,676		1	1
Hungary	4	1,755	Stable
Brazil	2	1,901			1	2^[10]
South Africa	2	1,842			1	24
Romania	2	1,355			2
Mexico	2	1,310				2
Argentina	2	935		1
Pakistan	2	425		1		2
Lithuania	1	1,185				1 ^[a]
Slovenia	1	656	Stable
Netherlands	1	449	Stable
Armenia	1	376	Considering replacement of existing reactor^[11]			1
Iran	0	0		1	2	3
North Korea	0	0		4 ^[b]
Turkey	0	0			3
Indonesia	0	0				4
Vietnam	0	0				2
Egypt	0	0				1
Israel	0	0				1
Libya (details)
Poland	0	0				Not specified^[12]

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^a One of the conditions of Lithuania's entry into the European Union was that the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Lithuania's only nuclear plant, be closed on safety grounds. As a result, Lithuania has proposed a replacement to be built on the same site.^[13]
^b North Korea has four incomplete reactors, two frozen in 1994 under the U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework, and two under construction by KEDO until suspended in 2003. An experimental 5MWe reactor is operating at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center.