World Nuclear Power Reactors & Uranium Requirements Archive
August 2009
Note: This is an archived table. The latest version is available here.
| COUNTRY | NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY GENERATION 2008 | REACTORS OPERABLE | REACTORS UNDER CONSTRUCTION | REACTORS PLANNED | REACTORS PROPOSED | URANIUM REQUIRED 2009 | |||||
| Aug-09 | Aug-09 | Aug-09 | Aug-09 | ||||||||
| Country Profile) | billion kWh | % e | No. | MWe | No. | MWe | No. | MWe | No. | MWe | tonnes U |
| Argentina | 6.8 | 6.2 | 2 | 935 | 1 | 692 | 1 | 740 | 1 | 740 | 122 |
| Armenia | 2.3 | 39.4 | 1 | 376 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1000 | 51 |
| Bangladesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2000 | 0 |
| Belarus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2000 | 2 | 2000 | 0 |
| Belgium | 43.4 | 53.8 | 7 | 5728 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1002 |
| Brazil | 14 | 3.1 | 2 | 1901 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1245 | 4 | 4000 | 308 |
| Bulgaria | 14.7 | 32.9 | 2 | 1906 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1900 | 0 | 0 | 260 |
| Canada | 88.6 | 14.8 | 18 | 12652 | 2 | 1500 | 4 | 4400 | 3 | 3800 | 1670 |
| China | 65.3 | 2.2 | 11 | 8587 | 15 | 15360 | 34 | 36380 | 80 | 72000 | 2010 |
| Czech Republic | 25 | 32.5 | 6 | 3686 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3400 | 610 |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1000 | 1 | 1000 | 0 |
| Finland | 22 | 29.7 | 4 | 2696 | 1 | 1600 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1000 | 446 |
| France | 418.3 | 76.2 | 59 | 63473 | 1 | 1630 | 1 | 1630 | 1 | 1630 | 10569 |
| Germany | 140.9 | 28.3 | 17 | 20339 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3398 |
| Hungary | 14 | 37.2 | 4 | 1826 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2000 | 274 |
| India | 13.2 | 2 | 17 | 3779 | 6 | 2976 | 23 | 21500 | 15 | 20000 | 961 |
| Indonesia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2000 | 4 | 4000 | 0 |
| Iran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 915 | 2 | 1900 | 1 | 300 | 143 |
| Israel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1200 | 0 |
| Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 17000 | 0 |
| Japan | 240.5 | 24.9 | 53 | 46236 | 2 | 2285 | 13 | 17915 | 1 | 1300 | 8388 |
| Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 600 | 2 | 600 | 0 |
| Korea DPR (North) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 950 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Korea RO (South) | 144.3 | 35.6 | 20 | 17716 | 5 | 5350 | 7 | 9450 | 0 | 0 | 3444 |
| Lithuania | 9.1 | 72.9 | 1 | 1185 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3400 | 0 |
| Mexico | 9.4 | 4 | 2 | 1310 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2000 | 242 |
| Netherlands | 3.9 | 3.8 | 1 | 485 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 |
| Pakistan | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2 | 400 | 1 | 300 | 2 | 600 | 2 | 2000 | 65 |
| Poland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10000 | 0 |
| Romania | 7.1 | 17.5 | 2 | 1310 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1310 | 1 | 655 | 174 |
| Russia | 152.1 | 16.9 | 31 | 21743 | 9 | 7130 | 7 | 8000 | 28 | 25880 | 3537 |
| Slovakia | 15.5 | 56.4 | 4 | 1688 | 2 | 840 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1200 | 251 |
| Slovenia | 6 | 41.7 | 1 | 696 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1000 | 137 |
| South Africa | 12.7 | 5.3 | 2 | 1842 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3565 | 24 | 4000 | 303 |
| Spain | 56.4 | 18.3 | 8 | 7448 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1383 |
| Sweden | 61.3 | 42 | 10 | 9104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1395 |
| Switzerland | 26.3 | 39.2 | 5 | 3237 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4000 | 531 |
| Thailand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2000 | 4 | 4000 | 0 |
| Turkey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2,400 | 1 | 1,200 | 0 |
| Ukraine | 84.3 | 47.4 | 15 | 13168 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1,900 | 20 | 27,000 | 1977 |
| UAE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4500 | 11 | 15500 | 0 |
| United Kingdom | 52.5 | 13.5 | 19 | 11035 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6400 | 4 | 6000 | 2059 |
| USA | 809 | 19.7 | 104 | 101,119 | 1 | 1,180 | 11 | 13,800 | 20 | 26,000 | 18,867 |
| Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2,000 | 8 | 8,000 | 0 |
| WORLD** | 2601 | 15 | 436 | 372,533 | 49 | 44,358 | 136 | 150,085 | 277 | 288,805 | 65,405 |
| billion kWh | % e | No. | MWe | No. | MWe | No. | MWe | No. | MWe | tonnes U | |
| NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY GENERATION 2008 | REACTORS OPERATING | REACTORS BUILDING | ON ORDER or PLANNED | PROPOSED | URANIUM REQUIRED | ||||||
Sources:
Reactor data: WNA to 1/8/09
IAEA - for nuclear electricity production & percentage of electricity (% e) 5/09.
WNA: Global Nuclear Fuel Market (reference scenario) - for U.
Operating = Connected to the grid;
Building/Construction = first concrete for reactor poured, or major refurbishment under way;
Planned = Approvals, funding or major commitment in place, mostly expected in operation within 8 years, or construction well advanced but suspended indefinitely;
Proposed = Specific program or site proposals, expected operation within 15 years. Planned and Proposed are generally gross MWe.
New plants coming on line are balanced by old plants being retired. Over 1996-2008, 40 reactors were retired as 47 started operation. There are no firm projections for retirements over the period covered by this Table, but WNA estimates that at least 60 of those now operating will close by 2030, most being small plants. The 2009 Market Report reference case has 143 reactors closing by 2030.
TWh = Terawatt-hours (billion kilowatt-hours), MWe = Megawatt net (electrical as distinct from thermal), kWh = kilowatt-hour.
65,405 tU = 77,132 t U3O8
** The world total includes 6 reactors operating on Taiwan with a combined capacity of 4927 MWe, which generated a total of 39.3 billion kWh in 2008 (accounting for 17.1% of Taiwan's total electricity generation). Taiwan has two reactors under construction with a combined capacity of 2600 MWe, and six proposed, total 8000 MWe. U demand of 831t is expected in 2009.
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