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Nuclear power by country

Nuclear power plants operate in 32 countries and generate about a tenth of the world's electricity.[1]
Most are in Europe, North America, East Asia and South Asia. The United States is the largest
producer of nuclear power, while France has the largest share of electricity generated by nuclear
power, at about 70%.[2] China has the fastest growing nuclear power programme with 16 new reactors
under construction, followed by India, which has 8 under construction.[3]

Some countries operated nuclear reactors in the past but have no operating nuclear plants. Among
them, Italy closed all of its nuclear stations by 1990 and nuclear power has since been discontinued
because of the 1987 referendums. Kazakhstan is planning to reintroduce nuclear power in the future.[4]
Belarus began operating one unit of its first nuclear power plant in June 2021 and was expecting to
bring the second unit into operation in 2023.[5]

Germany completed the shut down of its nuclear fleet on April 15, 2023 and any restart has been ruled
out on technical grounds.[6] Austria (Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant) and the Philippines (Bataan
Nuclear Power Plant) never started to use their first nuclear plants that were completely built.

Sweden and Belgium originally had phase-out policies however they have now moved away from their
original plans. The Philippines relaunched their nuclear programme on February 28, 2022 and may
soon operate the mothballed Bataan Plant.[7][8]

Due to financial, political and technical reasons, Cuba, Libya and Poland never completed the
construction of their first nuclear plants, and Australia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ghana, Ireland, Kuwait,
Oman, Peru and Singapore never built their planned first nuclear plants.[9][10] Some of these countries
are still planning to introduce nuclear power. As of 2020, Poland was in advanced planning phase for
1.5 GW and planned to have up to 9 GW by 2040.[11] Hong Kong has no nuclear power plants within its
boundary, but imports 80% of the electricity generated from Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station located
across the border, in which the power company of the territory holds stake.[12][13] In 2021, Iraq
declared it was planning to build 8 nuclear reactors by 2030 to supply up to 25% electric power in a
grid that was suffering from shortages.[14]

Overview
Of the 32 countries in which nuclear power plants operate, only France, Slovakia, Ukraine and Belgium
use them as the source for a majority of the country's electricity supply as of 2021. Other countries
have significant amounts of nuclear power generation capacity. By far the largest nuclear electricity
producers are the United States with 772,221 GWh of nuclear electricity in 2022, followed by China
with 395,354 GWh.[1] As of 2022, 401 reactors with a net capacity of 361,144 MWe were operational,
and 57 reactors with net capacity of 59,091 MWe were under construction. Of the reactors under
construction, 21 reactors with 21,608 MWe were in China and 8 reactors with a capacity of 6,028 MWe
were in India.[16]

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Nations based on nuclear output as a percentage of national power

output

Timeline of commissioned and decommissioned nuclear capacity since

the 1950s.[15] Positive numbers show the commissioned capacity for
each year; negative numbers show the decommissioned capacity for
each year.

Nuclear power by country in 2022[1]

Reactors Share of
Capacity Generated
total
Country Net-total electricity Notes
Under electricity
Operational (MWe) (GWh)
Construction use

China 54 21 52,181 395,354 5.0%

India 19 8 6,290 41,972 3.1%

Russia 37 6 27,727 209,517 19.6%

Turkey 0 4 — — —

South Korea 25 3 24,489 167,514 30.4%

Egypt 0 3 — — —

Ukraine 15 2 13,107 81,126 55.0% From 2021 before the Russian invasion

United Kingdom 12 2 7,343 43,605 14.2%

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Japan 33 2 31,679 51,908 6.1% Many reactors stopped

Bangladesh 0 2 — — —

France 56 1 61,370 282,093 62.6%

Slovakia 4 1 1,868 14,830 59.2%

United States 93 1 95,523 772,221 18.2%

Pakistan 6 1 3,262 22,219 16.2%

Belarus 1 1 1,110 4,411 11.9%

United Arab Emirates 3 1 4,011 19,300 6.8%

Argentina Global
3 status
1 of1,641
nuclear deployment
7,470 as of April 2023
5.4%
Operating reactors, building new reactors Operating reactors, stable
Brazil 2 1 1,884 13,745 2.5%
Operating reactors, planning new build Operating reactors, considering phase-out
Iran 1No reactors,
1 915 6,009reactors
building new 1.7% Civil nuclear power is illegal
Hungary 4No reactors,
0 planning
1,916 new build
14,954 47.0% No reactors

Belgium 7 0 5,942 41,744 46.4% Phase-out postponed

Slovenia 1[α] 0 688 5,311 42.8%

Czech Republic 6 0 3,934 29,310 36.7%

Switzerland 4 0 2,973 23,180 36.4% Gradual phase-out planned

Finland 5 0 4,394 24,242 35.0%

Bulgaria 2 0 2,006 15,784 32.6%

Armenia 1 0 416 2,631 31.0%

Sweden 6 0 6,937 50,018 29.4%

Nuclear power plants in Europe
Spain 7 0 7,123 56,150 20.3% Phase-out planned
(including decommissioned nuclear
Romania 2 0 1,300 10,222 19.4% power plants)

Canada 19 0 13,624 81,718 12.9%

Taiwan 3 0 2,859 22,917 9.1%

South Africa 2 0 1,854 10,124 4.9%

Mexico 2 0 1,552 10,539 4.5%

Netherlands 1 0 482 3,931 3.3%

World total 401 57 361,155 2,486,834

See also
▪ List of commercial nuclear reactors
▪ List of nuclear power stations
▪ Nuclear energy policy by country
▪ List of nuclear power accidents by country
▪ List of countries by uranium reserves
▪ World Nuclear Industry Status Report
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▪ Nuclear industry in Canada

Notes
α. One reactor (Krško Nuclear Power Plant) located within Slovenia is co-owned by and shared
between Croatia and Slovenia.

References
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-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx). www.world-nuclear.org.
Retrieved 8 January 2021.
3. "China Nuclear Power | Chinese Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association" (http://www.world-nu
clear.org/info/inf63.html). www.world-nuclear.org.
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External links
▪ World Nuclear Generation and Capacity (https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/world-nuclear-gen

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