Nuclear power by country

The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant in France. France produces around three quarters of its electricity by nuclear power.[1]
The Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition announced on 30 May 2011, that Germany’s 14 nuclear power stations will be shut down by 2022, in a policy reversal following Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.[2]

Nuclear power stations operate in 31 countries. China has 28 new reactors under construction,[3] and there are also a considerable number of new reactors being built in South Korea, India, and Russia. At the same time, at least 100 older and smaller reactors will "most probably be closed over the next 10-15 years".[4] So the expanding nuclear programs in Asia are balanced by retirements of aging plants and nuclear reactor phase-outs.[5]

In 2010, before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, it was reported that an average of about 10 nuclear reactors were expected to become operational per year, although according to the World Nuclear Association, of the 17 civilian reactors planned to become operational between 2007 and 2009, only five actually came on stream.[4] As of June 2011, Germany and Switzerland are phasing-out nuclear power[6][7] which will be replaced mostly by fossil fuels, and a smaller part renewable energy.

As of 2012, countries such as Australia, Austria, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, and Portugal remain opposed to nuclear power.[6][8] Global nuclear electricity generation in 2012 was at its lowest level since 1999.[9][10]

Overview

Of the thirty countries in which nuclear power plants operate, only France, Belgium, Hungary and Slovakia use them as the primary source of electricity, although many other countries have a significant nuclear power generation capacity. According to the World Nuclear Association, a nuclear power advocacy group, over 45 countries are giving "serious consideration" to introducing a nuclear power capability, with Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Vietnam, Belarus, and Jordan at the forefront.[11] China, South Korea and India are pursuing ambitious expansions of their nuclear power capacities, with China aiming to increase capacity to at least 80 GWe by 2020, 200 GWe by 2030 and 400 GWe by 2050.[12] South Korea plans to expand its nuclear capacity from 20.7 GWe in 2012 to 27.3 GWe in 2020 and to 43 GWe by 2030.[13] India aims to have 14.6 GWe nuclear power generation capacity by 2020 and 63 GWe by 2032 and to have 25% of all electricity supplied by nuclear power by 2050.[14]

Temporal development of the usage of nuclear energy for generating electricity.
(Power capacity of all newly installed nuclear plants [continuous border] and of all destroyed or permanently shut-down nuclear plants [dotted border] – separated by year and countries. The legend gives the ISO 3166-1 codes of the countries. Source:[15])
The status of nuclear power globally:
  Operating reactors, building new reactors
  Operating reactors, planning new build
  No reactors, building new reactors
  No reactors, planning new build
  Operating reactors, stable
  Operating reactors, considering phase-out
  Civil nuclear power is illegal
  No reactors
Nations based on nuclear output as a percentage of national power output.
Nuclear power plants in Europe


References:[15]



Country Number of operated reactors [16] Total net electrical capacity (MW) [16] Nuclear electricity supplied (GW.h) [16] Nuclear share of
electricity production, 2014[16]
France France 58 63130 418001.40 76.9%
Slovakia Slovakia 4 1814 14420.34 56.8%
Hungary Hungary 4 1889 14777.73 53.6%
Ukraine Ukraine 15 13107 83122.79 49.4%
Belgium Belgium 7 5927 32093.74 47.5%
Sweden Sweden 10 9470 62270.05 41.5%
Switzerland Switzerland 5 3333 26467.90 37.9%
Slovenia Slovenia 1 688 6060.82 37.2%
Czech Republic Czech Republic 6 3904 28636.78 35.8%
Finland Finland 4 2752 22645.96 34.6%
Bulgaria Bulgaria 2 1926 15013.99 31.8%
Armenia Armenia 1 375 2265.64 30.7%
South Korea Korea, Republic of 23 20717 149199.22 30.4%
Spain Spain 7 7121 54860.38 20.4%
United States United States 100 99244 798616.26 19.5%
Russia Russia 34 24654 169064.84 18.6%
Romania Romania 2 1300 10753.68 18.5%
United Kingdom United Kingdom 16 9373 57918.48 17.2%
Canada Canada 19 13500 98588.12 16.8%
Germany Germany 9 12074 91783.70 15.8%
South Africa South Africa 2 1860 14762.70 6.2%
Mexico Mexico 2 1330 9311.60 5.6%
Pakistan Pakistan 3 690 4577.53 4.3%
Argentina Argentina 3 1627 5258.17 4.0%
Netherlands Netherlands 1 482 3873.51 4.0%
India India 21 5308 33231.87 3.5%
Brazil Brazil 2 1884 14463.39 2.9%
China China 23 19007 123807.69 2.4%
Iran Iran 1 915 3723.60 1.5%
Japan Japan 48 42388 0.00 0.0%
World total 439 376821 2410372.94 NA


Table totals include Taiwan 6 5032 40801.06 18.9% , separately for political reasons.

List of nuclear reactors by country

Only the commercial reactors registered with the International Atomic Energy Agency are listed below.

Country Operating Under
construction		 References and notes
Argentina Argentina 3 1
Armenia Armenia 1 0 Replacement[17]
Belarus Belarus 0 2 Under construction
Belgium Belgium 7 0
Brazil Brazil 2 1 [18]
Bulgaria Bulgaria 2 0 Four reactors were shut down in 2004 and 2007. Belene Nuclear Power Plant construction was officially terminated in March 2012.[19]
Canada Canada 19 0 2 new reactors at Darlington planned
China China 26 23 80 GWe by 2020(~6%)[20]
Czech Republic Czech Republic 6 0
Finland Finland 4 1 As of 2012, TVO is planning a new reactor to be built and operational by 2020.[21]
France France 58 1 First French EPR under construction at Flamanville
Germany Germany 9 0 Phase-out in place.
Hungary Hungary 4 0 Paks2 [2*1200MW] signed with Rosatom in 2014.
India India 21 6
 Iran 1 0 The first reactor of Bushehr Plant has power generation capacity of 915 MW[22]
Japan Japan 43 3 After Fukushima, Japan shut down all of its 54 nuclear reactors, 6 of them permanently; 48 remain operational, but only 2 have been approved for restart.[23][24]
Mexico Mexico 2 0
Netherlands Netherlands 1 0
Pakistan Pakistan 3 2 Pakistan plans on constructing 32 nuclear power plants by 2050.[25]
Romania Romania 2 0 20 January 2011, GDF Suez, Iberdrola and RWE pulled out of the project.[26]
Russia Russia 34 9 9 new reactors by 2017
Slovakia Slovakia 4 2 Under construction
Slovenia Slovenia 1 0
South Africa South Africa 2 0 South Africa will be building a further 9600 MW by 2030 [27][28]
South Korea South Korea 24 4
Spain Spain 7 0 Stable[29]
Sweden Sweden 10 0
Switzerland Switzerland 5 0 Phase-out in place.[30]
Taiwan Taiwan 6 0
Turkey Turkey 0 2
Ukraine Ukraine 15 2 (IAEA) or 0 (WNA) 2 new reactors by 2018.[31][32] One destroyed in 1986.
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0 3
United Kingdom United Kingdom 16 0
United States United States 99 5
World 437 69 (IAEA) or 65 (WNA)

References:[1][15]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Annika Breidthardt (30 May 2011). "German government wants nuclear exit by 2022 at latest". Reuters.
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  7. ↑ James Kanter (25 May 2011). "Switzerland Decides on Nuclear Phase-Out". New York Times.
  8. ↑ "Nuclear power: When the steam clears". The Economist. 24 March 2011.
  9. ↑ WNA (20 June 2013). "Nuclear power down in 2012". World Nuclear News.
  10. ↑ "The Nuclear Renaissance".
  11. ↑ "Emerging Nuclear Energy Countries". World Nuclear Association. April 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
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  14. ↑ "Nuclear Power in India". World Nuclear Association. 2013-04-10. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "Operational & Long-Term Shutdown Reactors". IAEA. 2013-04-13. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "Nuclear Share of Electricity Generation in 2014". IAEA. 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
  17. ↑ "USA supports new nuclear build in Armenia". World Nuclear News. 2007-11-23. Retrieved 2007-11-25.
  18. ↑ Agência Estado (12-09-2008). "Lobão diz que país fará uma usina nuclear por ano em 50 anos" (in Portuguese). G1.globo.com. Retrieved 2008-10-15. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ↑ Bulgaria quits Belene Nuclear Power Plant project, Novinite, 28 March 2012
  20. ↑ "Nuclear Power in China". World Nuclear Association. September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
  21. ↑ "Kolme uutta reaktoria, Jees!". Tekniikka ja talous. 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
  22. ↑ F_405. "Iran's Bushehr nuke power plant at full capacity from May 23: Russian contractor - People's Daily Online". English.peopledaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2013-01-28.
  23. ↑ Japan/Nuclear Power in Japan, World Nuclear Association, 27 January 2015
  24. ↑ Gerhardt, Tina (22 July 2012). "Japan's People Say NO to Nuclear Energy". Alternet.
  25. ↑ "32 nuclear plants to produce 40,000MW: PAEC". The News International, Pakistan. 27 February 2014.
  26. ↑ "Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant".
  27. ↑ "Nuclear Power in South Africa". Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  28. ↑ "S.Africa wants nuclear contracts to stay at home". Reuters. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-28.
  29. ↑ Nuclear power in Spain, World Nuclear Association, URL accessed 13 June 2006
  30. ↑ Associated Press (28 September 2011). "Swiss Nuclear Power Plan Moves Toward Phase-Out Of Reactors". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2013-01-28.
  31. ↑ "BBC NEWS | Politics | New nuclear plants get go-ahead". News.bbc.co.uk. 10 January 2008. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  32. ↑ "Nuclear Power in Ukraine". World Nuclear Association. August 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-22.

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