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Capacity up, reactor numbers down

Friday, 5 January 2007

World nuclear capacity increased by about 475 MWe during 2006. However the net number of reactors operating around the world fell by six to 435.

Eight older plants were retired from service. One reactor in

Zorita , Spain closed in April, the UK 's four oldest reactors at Dungeness A and Sizewell A closed at the end of December, as did Bulgaria 's two oldest units at Kozloduy and Slovakia 's oldest unit at Bohunice as a condition of EU entry.

Tianwan 1 reactor in

China and Tarapur 3 in

India

entered operation while nine reactors had power uprates, to more than compensate for the loss in capacity of the older reactors.

Compared with a year ago, two more reactors were under construction, 25 more were planned and 45 more were proposed.

World Nuclear Power Reactors as of 4 January 2007

	REACTORS OPERABLE Jan 2007		REACTORS UNDER CONSTRUCTION Jan 2007		REACTORS PLANNED Jan 2007		REACTORS PROPOSED Jan 2007
	No.	MWe	No.	MWe	No.	MWe	No.	MWe
Argentina	2	935	1	692	0	0	1	700
Armenia	1	376	0	0	0	0	1	1000
Belgium	7	5728	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brazil	2	1901	0	0	1	1245	4	4000
Bulgaria	2	1906	0	0	2	1900	0	0
Canada*	18	12595	2	1540	2	2000	0	0
China	10	7587	5	4170	13	12920	50	35880
CzechRepublic	6	3472	0	0	0	0	2	1900
Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	600
Finland	4	2696	1	1600	0	0	0	0
France	59	63473	0	0	1	1630	1	1600
Germany	17	20303	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hungary	4	1773	0	0	0	0	0	0
India	16	3577	7	3178	4	2800	15	11100
Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4000
Iran	0	0	1	915	2	1900	3	2850
Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1200
Japan	55	47700	2	2285	11	14945	1	1100
Kazakhstan	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	300
KoreaDPR (North)	0	0	0	0	1	950	0	0
KoreaRO (South)	20	17533	1	950	7	8250	0	0
Lithuania	1	1185	0	0	0	0	1	1000
Mexico	2	1310	0	0	0	0	2	2000
Netherlands	1	452	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pakistan	2	400	1	300	2	600	2	2000
Romania	1	655	1	655	0	0	3	1995
Russia	31	21743	3	2650	8	9600	18	21600
Slovakia	5	2064	0	0	2	840	0	0
Slovenia	1	696	0	0	0	0	1	1000
South Africa	2	1842	0	0	1	165	24	4000
Spain	8	7442	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sweden	10	8975	0	0	0	0	0	0
Switzerland	5	3220	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkey	0	0	0	0	3	4500	0	0
Ukraine	15	13168	0	0	2	1900	0	0
United Kingdom	19	10982	0	0	0	0	0	0
USA	103	98254	1	1200	2	2716	21	24000
Vietnam	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2000
WORLD**	435	368,827	28	22,735	64	68,861	158	124,225

* In Canada, 'construction' figure represents the two laid-up Bruce A reactors.

** The world total includes six reactors on Taiwan with a combined capacity of 4884 MWe, which generated a total of 38.4 billion kWh in 2005 (accounting for 20% of Taiwan's total electricity generation). Taiwan has two reactors under construction with a combined capacity of 2600 MWe.

Further information

WNN: EU accession brings early reactor closures
WNN: UK nuclear retirements