World Nuclear Power Reactors & Uranium Requirements

December 2025

Note: This is an archived table. The latest version is available here.

COUNTRY

NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY GENERATION 2024
REACTORS OPERABLE
REACTORS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
REACTORS PLANNED
REACTORS PROPOSED
URANIUM REQUIRED 2025
TWh % No. MWe No. MWe No. NWe No. MWe tonnes U
Argentina

10.4

7.4

3

1641

1

29

0

0

4

1200

132

Armenia

2.6

30.8

1

416

0

0

0

0

1

1060

56

Bangladesh

0

0

0

0

2

2400

0

0

2

2400

179

Belarus

14.7

36.3

2

2220

0

0

0

0

0

0

348

Belgium

29.7

41.5

2

2056

0

0

0

0

0

0

276

Brazil 

14.9

2.3

2

1884

1

1405

0

0

0

0

335

Bulgaria

15.1

41.6

2

2006

0

0

2

2500

0

0

338

Canada

81.2

13.4

17

12,714

0

0

2

400

12

6400

1455

China

417.5

4.7

59

58,056

37

42,888

44

49,456

145

172,950

13,872

Czech Republic

28.0

40.2

6

4212

0

0

3

2570

4

3340

707

Egypt

0

0

0

0

4

4800

0

0

0

0

0

Estonia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 600 0
Finland

31.1

39.1

5

4369

0

0

0

0

0

0

609

France

364.4

67.3

57

63,000

0

0

0

0

6

9900

8389

Hungary

15.2

47.1

4

1916

0

0

2

2400

0

0

320

India

49.9

3.3

24

7943

6

5200

16

9655

26

30,800

1884

Indonesia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 500 0
Iran

6.4

1.7

1

915

1

1057

2

1417

4

5000

149

Japan †

84.9

8.0

33

31,679

2

2756

0

0

1

1385

2135

Kazakhstan

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

2400

2

2400

0

Korea RO (South)

179.4

31.7

26

25,609

3

4200

1

1400

0

0

4703

Mexico

12.0

4.8

2

1552

0

0

0

0

0

0

237

Netherlands

3.4

2.8

1

482

0

0

0

0

2

2650

72

Pakistan

22.8

16.7

6

3262

1

1100

0

0

0

0

521

Poland

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

3750

26

10,000

0

Romania

10.0

19.8

2

1300

0

0

2

1440

6

462

183

Russia

202.1

17.8

34

27,870

6

4189

23

21,655

9

754

6251

Saudi Arabia

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

2800

0

Slovakia

17.0

60.6

5

2302

1

471

0

0

1

1200

443

Slovenia

5.6

35.0

1

696

0

0

0

0

1

1200

128

South Africa

7.8

3.9

2

1854

0

0

0

0

2

2500

281

Spain

52.1

19.9

7

7123

0

0

0

0

0

0

1218

Sweden

48.7

29.1

6

7008

0

0

7

4000

0

0

968

Switzerland

23.0

28.6

4

2973

0

0

0

0

0

0

412

Turkey

0

0

0

0

4

4800

0

0

8

9600

620

Ukraine † ‡

49.9

52.0

15

13,107

2

1900

2

2500

7

8750

890

UAE

36.5

21.8

4

5348

0

0

0

0

0

0

902

United Kingdom

37.3

12.3

9

5883

2

3440

2

3340

14

1800

896

USA

781.9

18.2

94

96,952

0

0

0

0

25

7540

19,011

Uzbekistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2110 0 0 0
Vietnam

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

1000

0

WORLD*

2667

c. 9%

436

398,348

73

80,635

117

110,993

318

288,191

68,920

TWh

% e

No.

MWe

No.

MWe

No.

MWe

No.

MWe

tonnes U

Sources:

Reactor and electricity data: International Atomic Energy Agency Power Reactor Information System (PRIS); US Energy Information Administration; company data; World Nuclear Association estimates
World Nuclear Association, The Nuclear Fuel Report (published September 2023, Reference Scenario) – for uranium requirements

Notes:

68,920 tU = 81,273 tU3O8

Operable = Connected to the grid.
Under Construction = First concrete for reactor poured, keel laying for floating plants.
Planned = Approvals, funding or commitment in place, mostly expected to be in operation within the next 15 years.
Proposed = Specific programme or site proposals; timing very uncertain.

* World figures include Taiwan, which generated a total of 11.7 TWh from nuclear in 2024 (accounting for 4.6% of Taiwan's total electricity generation). The island's last reactor was shut down in May 2025.

† Under Construction figures include a number of units where construction is currently suspended: Angra 3 (Brazil); Ohma 1 and Shimane 3 (Japan); Khmelnitski 3&4 (Ukraine).

‡ Ukraine 2024 electricity generation estimated.

New plants coming online are largely balanced by old plants being retired. Over the past 20 years (2005-2024), 106 reactors were retired as 102 started operation. However, the reactors grid connected during this period were larger, on average, than those shutdown, so capacity increased by about 21 GW.

TWh = terawatt hour (billion kilowatt hours); kWh = kilowatt hour; MWe = megawatt (electrical as distinct from thermal).