World Nuclear Power Reactors & Uranium Requirements

November 2020

The World Nuclear Association's Country Profiles, linked to below, provide more detail of what is tabulated here.

COUNTRY

(Click name for
Country Profile)

NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY GENERATION

2019

REACTORS OPERABLE

November 2020

REACTORS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

November 2020

REACTORS PLANNED

November 2020

REACTORS PROPOSED

November 2020

URANIUM REQUIRED

2020

TWh

% e

No.

MWe net

No.

MWe gross

No.

MWe gross

No.

MWe gross

tonnes U

Argentina
7.9
5.9
3
1641
1
29
1
1150
2
1350
198
Armenia
2.0
27.8
1
375
0
0
0
0
1
1060
77
Bangladesh
0
0
0
0
2
2400
0
0
2
2400
0
Belarus
0
0
1
1110
1
1194
0
0
2
2400
701
Belgium
41.4
47.6
7
5930
0
0
0
0
0
0
999
Brazil †
15.2
2.7
2
1884
1
1405
0
0
4
4000
325
Bulgaria
15.9
37.5
2
2006
0
0
1
1000
1
1000
331
Canada
94.9
14.9
19
13,554
0
0
0
0
2
1500
1538
China
330.1
4.9
49
47,498
14
15,503
41
46,035
168
197,310
9834
Czech Republic
28.6
35.2
6
3932
0
0
1
1200
3
3600
665
Egypt
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
4800
0
0
0
Finland
22.9
34.7
4
2794
1
1720
1
1250
0
0
765
France
382.4
70.6
56
61,370
1
1650
0
0
0
0
8936
Germany
71.9
12.4
6
8113
0
0
0
0
0
0
1264
Hungary
15.4
49.2
4
1902
0
0
2
2400
0
0
352
India
40.7
3.2
22
6255
7
5300
14
10,500
28
32,000
967
Iran
5.9
1.8
1
915
1
1057
1
1057
5
2760
157
Japan †
65.7
7.5
33
31,679
2
2756
1
1385
8
11,562
2000
Jordan
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1000
0
Kazakhstan
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
600
0
Korea RO (South)
138.8
26.2
24
23,172
4
5600
0
0
2
2800
4903
Lithuania
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2700
0
Mexico
10.9
4.5
2
1552
0
0
0
0
3
3000
251
Netherlands
3.7
3.2
1
482
0
0
0
0
0
0
83
Pakistan
9.1
6.6
5
1318
2
2200
1
1170
0
0
196
Poland
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
6000
0
Romania
10.4
18.5
2
1300
0
0
2
1440
1
720
185
Russia ‡
195.5
19.7
38
28,578
2
2510
21
21,380
23
22,500
4834
Saudi Arabia
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
16
17,000
0
Slovakia
14.2
53.9
4
1814
2
942
0
0
1
1200
515
Slovenia
5.5
37.0
1
688
0
0
0
0
1
1000
141
South Africa
13.6
6.7
2
1860
0
0
0
0
8
9600
283
Spain
55.9
21.4
7
7121
0
0
0
0
0
0
1290
Sweden
64.4
34.0
7
7740
0
0
0
0
0
0
962
Switzerland
25.4
23.9
4
2960
0
0
0
0
0
0
390
Thailand
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2000
0
Turkey
0
0
0
0
2
2400
2
2400
8
9500
0
Ukraine †
78.1
53.9
15
13,107
2
1900
0
0
2
2,400
1893
UAE
0
0
1
1345
3
4200
0
0
0
0
966
United Kingdom
51.0
15.6
15
8923
2
3440
2
3340
2
2300
1820
USA
809.4
19.7
94
96,553
2
2500
3
2550
18
8000
19,746
Uzbekistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2400 2 2400 0
WORLD*
2657
10.1**
442
393,315
52
58,706
100
105,457
326
355,662
68,240
 
TWh
% e
No.
MWe
No.
MWe
No.
MWe
No.
MWe
tonnes U
 
NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY GENERATION
OPERABLE
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
PLANNED
PROPOSED
URANIUM REQUIRED
 

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 2019, reference scenario forecast) – for uranium requirements
68,240 tU = 80,472 t U3O8

Notes:

Operable = Connected to the grid.
Under Construction = First concrete for reactor poured.
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 31.1 TWh from nuclear in 2019 (accounting for 13.4% of Taiwan's total electricity generation). The island has four operable reactors with a combined net capacity of 3844 MWe. A two-unit plant (Lungmen) commenced construction in New Taipei City in 1999. In February 2019 Taipower confirmed that the two units would not be completed. The two units are listed as under construction in PRIS, but were removed from WNA's database on 1 September 2020.

** International Energy Agency data for year 2018 (latest available).

† 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).

‡ Baltic 1, a VVER-1200 unit, commenced construction in Kaliningrad in Russia in February 2012. Construction was suspended in July 2013, and in 2017 the RPV made for Baltic 1 was sent to be used in Ostrovets 2 in Belarus. The unit is shown as under construction in PRIS, but was removed from the WNA's database in November 2020.

New plants coming online are largely balanced by old plants being retired. Over 1998-2018, 89 reactors were retired as 98 started operation. The reference scenario in the 2019 edition of The Nuclear Fuel Report (Table 2.5) has 154 reactors closing by 2040, and 289 new ones coming online (figures include 21 Japanese reactors online by 2040). 

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

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