Nuclear Nuclear power: electricity and beyond

CO2 avoided

1.25 Gt
Electricity produced

2 486.8 TWh
Non-electric
applications
District heating

1418 GWh 1341GWh

Industrial heating Hydrogen
production***
Desalination

41GWh

Power
electrical equivalent of heat electrical equivalent of heat electrical equivalent of heat

Status resulted in
approximately

1.5 billion

2022
gallons of water

LE WA
TE
AB

R
PO
Reactors in operation**

393.8 GW(e) total

net capacity

Status changes Nuclear power performance

438 reactors
New connections to the grid Permanent shutdown Construction started
OLKILUOTO-3

2000 100 3 000

SHIN-HANUL-1

BARAKAH-3
HONGYANHE-6

XUDABU-4
TIANWAN-8

HAIYANG-3
SANMEN-3

EL DABAA-1

EL DABAA-2
AKKUYU-4
1500

LUFENG-5
FUQING-6

Reactors under construction

KANUPP-3

2 500
80

Electricity produced (TWh)

59.3
1000

R E L I A B I L I TY

Percentage of capacity
GW(e) total
REP. OF KOREA

2 000
Capacity MW(e)

net capacity 500

PAKISTAN

TÜRKIYE
FINLAND

60

EGYPT

EGYPT
CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

CHINA

CHINA
58

UAE
0 1 500
USA

BELGIUM
UK

UK

UK
reactors
-500 40 Electricity production

1 000
HINKLEY POINT B-2

HINKLEY POINT B-1

HUNTERSTON B-2

External unavailibility

-1000
PALISADES

Operating experience
Unplanned unavailibility

20

DOEL-3
Planned Unavilibility

19 764
-1500 500
reactor-years Energy Availibility

of operation
0 0
(cumulative) JAN FEB MAR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2022

Nuclear power
Country statistics Reactors in operation Reactors under construction Net capacity (MW(e)) Electricity produced (TWh) % Nuclear share

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Belarus jkhj

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Belgium jkhj
Brazil jkhj
Bulgaria jkhj

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Canada jkhj
China jkhj
Czech Republic jkhj

statistics
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3 1641 1 416 0 0 1 1110 6 4936 2 1884 2 2006 19 13624 54 52181 6 3934

5.4% 7.5 31.0% 2.6 NA NA 11.9% 4.4 46.4% 41.7 2.5% 13.7 32.5% 15.8 12.9% 81.7 5.0% 395.4 36.7% 29.3
1 25 0 0 2 2160 1 1110 0 0 1 1340 0 0 0 0 20 20284 0 0
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Egypt jkhj
Finland jkhj
France jkhj Germany jkhj
Hungary jkhj
India jkhj
Islamic Republic of Iran jkhj
Japan jkhj
Republic of Korea jkhj
Mexico jkhj

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0 0 5 4394 56 61370 3 4055 4 1916 19 6290 1 915 10 9486 25 24489 2 1552

NA NA 35.0% 24.2 62.6% 282.1 5.8% 31.9 47.0% 15.0 3.1% 42.0 1.7% 6.0 6.1% 51.9 30.4% 167.5 4.5% 10.5
2 2200 0 0 1 1630 0 0 0 0 8 6028 1 974 2 2653 3 4020 0 0
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Netherlands jkhj
Pakistan jkhj
Romania jkhj
Russia jkhj
Slovakia jkhj Slovenia jkhj
South Africa jkhj
Spain jkhj
Sweden jkhj
Switzerland jkhj

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1 482 6 3262 2 1300 37 27727 4 1868 1 688 2 1854 7 7123 6 6937 4 2973
3.3% 3.9 16.2% 22.2 19.3% 10.2 19.6% 209.5 59.2% 14.6 42.8% 5.3 4.9% 10.1 20.3% 56.2 29.5% 50.0 36.4% 23.2
0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2700 2 880 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Türkiye jkhj Ukraine jkhj

United Arab Emirates jkhj
United Kingdom jkhj
United States jkhj

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0 0 15 13107 3 4011 9 5883 92 94718

NA NA * * 12.3% 19.3 14.2% 43.6 18.2% 772.2
4 4456 2 2070 1 1310 2 3260 2 2234
* Data were not submitted for the year 2022 by the time of publication.
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Taiwan, China: 3 reactors, 2859 MW(e) in operation; 0 reactors under construction; 22.9 TWh electricity supplied, 9.1% nuclear share. NA Not Applicable

22-05239E

GW(e) – Gigawatt electric TWh – Terawatt hour GWh – Gigawatt hour Gt – Gigatonne
** The total includes data for reactors where operation remained suspended during the
year 2022: India (4 reactors; 639 MW (e)) and Japan (23 reactors; 22 193 MW (e)).
*** Data not available.
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