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 ageing 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, New Zealand, 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.^[11] 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.^[12] China, South Korea and India are pursuing ambitious expansions of their nuclear power capacities, with China aiming to increase capacity to at least 80 GW_e by 2020, 200 GW_e by 2030 and 400 GW_e by 2050.^[13] South Korea plans to expand its nuclear capacity from 20.7 GW_e in 2012 to 27.3 GW_e in 2020 and to 43 GW_e by 2030.^[14] India aims to have 14.6 GW_e nuclear power generation capacity by 2020 and 63 GW_e by 2032 and to have 25% of all electricity supplied by nuclear power by 2050.^[15][16]

Timeline of commissioned and decommissioned nuclear capacity since the 1950s^[16]

Global status of nuclear deployment as of 2009 (source: see file description)

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

Nuclear power by Country in 2014^[11]

Country/Region	Number of operated reactors	Capacity Net-total (MWe)	Generated electricity (GWh)	%-share of domestic generation
France	58	63130	418001.40	76.9%
Slovakia	4	1814	14420.34	56.8%
Hungary	4	1889	14777.73	53.6%
Ukraine	15	13107	83122.79	49.4%
Belgium	7	5927	32093.74	47.5%
Sweden	10	9470	62270.05	41.5%
Switzerland	5	3333	26467.90	37.9%
Slovenia	1	688	6060.82	37.2%
Czech Republic	6	3904	28636.78	35.8%
Finland	4	2752	22645.96	34.6%
Bulgaria	2	1926	15013.99	31.8%
Armenia	1	375	2265.64	30.7%
Korea, Republic of	23	20717	149199.22	30.4%
Spain	7	7121	54860.38	20.4%
United States	100	99244	798616.26	19.5%
Russia	34	24654	169064.84	18.6%
Romania	2	1300	10753.68	18.5%
United Kingdom	16	9373	57918.48	17.2%
Canada	19	13500	98588.12	16.8%
Germany	9	12074	91783.70	15.8%
South Africa	2	1860	14762.70	6.2%
Mexico	2	1330	9311.60	5.6%
Pakistan	3	690	4577.53	4.3%
Argentina	3	1627	5258.17	4.0%
Netherlands	1	482	3873.51	4.0%
India	21	5780	37835.00	3.7%
Brazil	2	1884	14463.39	2.9%
China	30	28310	123807.69	2.4%
Iran	1	915	3723.60	1.5%
Japan	48	42388	0.00	0.0%
Taiwan	6	5032	40801.06	18.9%
World total	439	376,821 MWe	2,410 TWh	10.9%[17]

List of nuclear reactors by country

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

Country/Region	Operating	Under construction	References and notes
Argentina	3	1
Armenia	1	0	Replacement[18]
Belarus	0	2	Under construction
Belgium	7	0
Brazil	2	1	[19]
Bulgaria	2	0	Four reactors were shut down in 2004 and 2007. Belene Nuclear Power Plant construction was officially terminated in March 2012.[20]
Canada	19	0	2 new reactors at Darlington planned
China	30	24	58 GWe by 2020
Czech Republic	6	0
Egypt	0	4	4 reactors expected to be completed 2022 [21]
Finland	4	1	As of 2012, TVO is planning a new reactor to be built and operational by 2020.[22]
France	58	1	First French EPR under construction at Flamanville
Germany	9	0	Phase-out in place by 2022.
Hungary	4	0	Paks2 [2*1200MW] signed with Rosatom in 2014.
India	21	6	Six reactors with a cumulative capacity of 4300 MW are under construction as of 2015.
Iran	1	0	The first reactor of Bushehr Plant has power generation capacity of 915 MW[23]
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.[24][25]
Mexico	2	0
Netherlands	1	0
Pakistan	3	2	Pakistan plans on constructing 32 nuclear power plants by 2050.[26]
Romania	2	0	20 January 2011, GDF Suez, Iberdrola and RWE pulled out of the project.
Russia	34	9	9 new reactors by 2017
Slovakia	4	2	Under construction
Slovenia	1	0
South Africa	2	0	South Africa will be building a further 9600 MW, 6-8 reactors, by 2030[27][28]
South Korea	24	4
Spain	7	0	Stable[29]
Sweden	10	0
Switzerland	5	0	Phase-out in place, first decommissioning 2029.[30]
Taiwan	6	0
Turkey	0	2
Ukraine	15	2 (IAEA) or 0 (WNA)	2 new reactors by 2018.[31][32] One destroyed in 1986.
United Arab Emirates	0	4	4 reactors expected to be operational 2017-2020[33][34]
United Kingdom	16	7
United States	99	5
World	437	69 (IAEA) or 65 (WNA)

References:^[1][16]

See also

• List of nuclear reactors
• Nuclear energy policy by country
• Nuclear power accidents by country
• Uranium reserves
• World Nuclear Industry Status Report

References

External links

• World Nuclear Statistics
• 2006 statistics in Neutron Physics by Paul Reuss