List of nuclear power stations
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The following page lists all nuclear power stations that are larger than in current net capacity. Those power stations that are smaller than , and those that are only at a planning or proposal stage, may be found in regional lists at the end of the page.
Nuclear power stations
This table lists currently operational power stations. Some of these may have reactors under construction, but only current net capacity is listed. Capacity of permanently shut-down reactors is not included, but capacity of long-term shut-down reactors is included.Power station | Capacity (MW) | Country | Location Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on the Earth to be specified by a set of numbers. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represent vertical position, and two or three of the numbers represent horizontal position... | |
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Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station at Almaraz in Spain.It consists of two PWRs of 939 and 894 MWe.-External links:* at the Nuclear Tourist website.... |
2,017 | Spain | 39°48′29"N 05°41′49"W | |
Angra Nuclear Power Plant Angra Nuclear Power Plant Angra Nuclear Power Plant is Brazil's sole nuclear power plant. It is located at the Central Nuclear Almirante Álvaro Alberto on the Itaorna Beach in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil... |
1,8891,245 MW reactor under construction | Brazil | 23°00′30"S 44°28′26"W | |
Arkansas Nuclear One Arkansas Nuclear One Arkansas Nuclear One is a two-unit pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant located on Lake Dardanelle in Russellville, Arkansas; it is the only nuclear power plant in Arkansas.It is owned by Entergy Arkansas and operated by Entergy Nuclear.... |
1,839 | United States | 35°18′37"N 93°13′53"W | |
Ascó Nuclear Power Plant Ascó Nuclear Power Plant Ascó Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station located in Ascó, Catalonia, in Spain.It consists of two PWRs of 933 and 943 MWe.-2007 leak:... |
1,992 | Spain | 41°12′00"N 00°34′10"E | |
Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant -External links:* – website in English* – website in Russian and English* – International environmental organization... |
3,800 | Russia | 52°05′28"N 47°57′19"E | |
Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station Beaver Valley Power Station is a nuclear power plant covering near Shippingport, Pennsylvania, west by north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The Beaver Valley plant is operated by FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Corporation... |
1,738 | United States | 40°37′24"N 80°25′50"W | |
Belleville Nuclear Power Plant Belleville Nuclear Power Plant The Belleville Nuclear Power Plant is located in Belleville-sur-Loire near Léré, Cher, along the Loire River between Nevers and Orléans . It employs approximately 620 people and consists of two large 1,300 MW P4 nuclear reactors... |
2,620 | Early Modern France | 47°30′35"N 02°52′30"E | |
Blayais Nuclear Power Plant Blayais Nuclear Power Plant The Blayais Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear plant on the banks of the Gironde estuary near Blaye, South Western France operated by Électricité de France.-Description:... |
3,640 | Early Modern France | 45°15′21"N 00°41′35"E | |
Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station Braidwood Generating Station is located in Will County in northeastern Illinois, USA. The nuclear power plant serves Chicago and northern Illinois with electricity. The plant was originally built by Commonwealth Edison company, and subsequently transferred to Com Ed's parent company, Exelon... |
2,330 | United States | 41°14′37"N 88°13′45"W | |
Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant is close to the municipality of Brokdorf in Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It started in October 1986 by a first-of-its-kind joint venture between PreussenElektra and Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke... |
1,410 | Germany | 53°51′03"N 09°20′41"E | |
Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant | 3,300 | United States | 34°42′14"N 87°07′07"W | |
Bruce Nuclear Generating Station Bruce Nuclear Generating Station Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, in the communities of Inverhuron and Tiverton, Ontario. It occupies 932 ha of land. The facility derives its name from Bruce County in which it is located, in the former Bruce Township... |
6,1392 reactors with 1500 MW long-term shutted down | Canada | 44°42′14"N 81°35′58"W | |
Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station The Brunswick nuclear power plant, named for the county in which it is located, covers 1,200 acres . The site is adjacent to the town of Southport, North Carolina, and to wetlands and woodlands, and was opened in 1975.... |
1,858 | United States | 33°57′30"N 78°0′37"W | |
Bugey Nuclear Power Plant Bugey Nuclear Power Plant The Bugey Nuclear Power Station is located in Bugey in the Saint-Vulbas commune , about 30 km from the Swiss border. The site occupies 100 hectares. It is on the edge of the Rhône River, from where it gets its cooling water, and is about 30 km upstream from Lyon... |
3,580540 MW reactor permanently shutted down | Early Modern France | 45°19′31"N 05°16′15"E | |
Byron Nuclear Generating Station Byron Nuclear Generating Station The Byron Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located in Ogle County, Illinois, east of the Rock River. The reactor buildings were constructed by Babcock and Wilcox and house two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors, Unit 1 and Unit 2, which first began operation in... |
2,300 | United States | 42°4′27"N 89°16′55"W | |
Callaway Plant | 1,190 | United States | 38°45′42"N 91°46′48"W | |
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant The Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay near Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland.-Overview:... |
1,735 | United States | 38°25′55"N 76°26′32"W | |
Catawba Nuclear Station Catawba Nuclear Station The Catawba Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant located on a peninsula, called "Concord Peninsula", that reaches out into Lake Wylie, in York, South Carolina... |
2,258 | United States | 35°3′6"N 81°4′12"W | |
Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant The Cattenom Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant located in Lorraine in the Cattenom commune, France on the Moselle River between Thionville and Trier... |
5,200 | Early Modern France | 49°24′57"N 06°13′05"E | |
Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant The Nuclear Power Plant in Cernavodă is the only nuclear power plant in Romania. It produces around 20% of the country's electricity. It uses CANDU reactor technology from AECL, using heavy water produced at Drobeta-Turnu Severin as its neutron moderator and water from the Danube – Black Sea Canal... |
1,300 | Kingdom of Romania | 44°19′20"N 28°03′26"E | |
Chinon Nuclear Power Plant Chinon Nuclear Power Plant The Chinon Nuclear Power Plant is near the town of Avoine in the French Indre et Loire département, on the Loire river . The power station has seven reactors, of which three are now closed.... |
3,6203 reactors with 610 MW permanently shutted down | Early Modern France | 47°13′50"N 00°10′14"E | |
Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant | 1,208 | Republic of China | 25°17′29"N 121°34′4"E | |
Chooz Nuclear Power Plant Chooz Nuclear Power Plant The Chooz Nuclear Power Station lies in the municipality of Chooz in the Ardennes department, France, on the Meuse in a panhandle protruding into Belgium, between the French city of Charleville-Mézières and the Belgian municipality of Dinant.... |
3,000305 MW reactor permanently shutted down | Early Modern France | 50°05′24"N 04°47′22"E | |
Civaux Nuclear Power Plant Civaux Nuclear Power Plant The Civaux Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Civaux at the edge of Vienne River between Confolens and Chauvigny , and 34 km south-east of Poitiers.... |
2,990 | Early Modern France | 46°27′24"N 00°39′10"E | |
Clinton Nuclear Generating Station Clinton Nuclear Generating Station The Clinton Power Station is located near Clinton, Illinois, USA. The nuclear power station has a General Electric boiling water reactor on a site with an adjacent cooling reservoir, Clinton Lake. Due to inflation and cost overruns, Clinton's final construction cost exceeded $2.6 billion... |
1,043 | United States | 40°10′20"N 88°50′06"W | |
Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station at Cofrentes in Spain.It consists of one BWR of 1092 MWe.-External links:* at the Nuclear Tourist website.... |
1,064 | Spain | 39°13′00"N 01°03′00"W | |
Columbia Generating Station Columbia Generating Station The Columbia Generating Station, is a nuclear power station located on the United States Department of Energy Hanford Site, 12 miles NW of Richland, Washington. Its site covers 1,089 acres of Benton County, Washington.... |
1,131 | United States | 46°28′16"N 119°20′02"W | |
Comanche Peak Nuclear Generating Station Comanche Peak Nuclear Generating Station Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant is located in Somervell County, Texas. The nuclear power plant is located 40 miles southwest of Ft. Worth and about 60 miles southwest of Dallas. It relies on nearby Squaw Creek Reservoir for cooling water... |
2,367 | United States | 32°17′54"N 97°47′06"W | |
Cruas Nuclear Power Plant Cruas Nuclear Power Plant The Cruas Nuclear Power Station is a Nuclear power plant located in Cruas and Meysse communes, Ardèche next to the Rhône River in France. The site is 35km north of Tricastin Nuclear Power Center and near the town of Montélimar.... |
3,660 | Early Modern France | 44°37′59"N 04°45′24"E | |
Dampierre Nuclear Power Plant Dampierre Nuclear Power Plant The Dampierre nuclear power plant is located in the town of Dampierre-en-Burly , 55 km upstream of Orleans and 110 km downstream of Nevers, it uses water from the Loire for cooling.Approximately 1,100 people work at the site.-Seismic risk:... |
3,560 | Early Modern France | 47°43′59"N 02°31′00"E | |
Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Darlington Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Clarington, Ontario. The facility derives its name from the Township of Darlington, the former name of the municipality in which it is located.The Darlington station is a large... |
3,512 | Canada | 43°52′22"N 78°43′11"W | |
Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant | 1,888 | Mainland China | 22°35′52"N 114°32′37"E | |
Diablo Canyon Power Plant Diablo Canyon Power Plant Diablo Canyon Power Plant is an electricity-generating nuclear power plant at Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, California. The plant has two Westinghouse-designed 4-loop pressurized-water nuclear reactors operated by Pacific Gas & Electric. The facility is located on about in Avila Beach,... |
2,240 | United States | 35°12′39"N 120°51′22"W | |
Doel Nuclear Power Station | 2,911 | Belgium | 51°19′29"N 04°15′31"E | |
Donald C. Cook Nuclear Generating Station Donald C. Cook Nuclear Generating Station Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, USA. The plant is owned by American Electric Power and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary... |
2,069 | United States | 41°58′31"N 86°33′57"W | |
Dresden Nuclear Power Plant Dresden Nuclear Power Plant Dresden Generating Station is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dresden 1 was activated in 1960 and retired in 1978. Operating since 1970 are Dresden units 2 and 3, two General Electric boiling water reactors... |
1,734197 MW reactor permanently shutted down | United States | 41°23′23"N 88°16′5"W | |
Dukovany Nuclear Power Station Dukovany Nuclear Power Station The Dukovany Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant near Dukovany, a village in the Czech Republic.It was the first NPP in what is now the Czech Republic and is situated 30 km from the city of Třebíč, near Dalešice Dam, where the NPP sources its water supply... |
1,752 | Czech Republic | 49°05′06"N 16°08′56"E | |
Dungeness Nuclear Power Station | 1,0402 reactors with 450 MW permanently shutted down | United Kingdom | 50°54′50"N 00°57′50"E | |
Edwin Hatch Nuclear Power Station | 1,759 | United States | 31°56′03"N 82°20′38"W | |
Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station The Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Erie near Monroe, in Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan. It is approximately halfway between Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio. It is also visible from parts of Amherstburg, Ontario. Two units have been... |
1,12261 MW reactor permanently shutted down | United States | 41°57′46"N 83°15′27"W | |
Emsland Nuclear Power Plant Emsland Nuclear Power Plant Emsland Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear reactor located in the district of Emsland, Germany just south of the Lingen Nuclear Power Plant. The reactor has 193 fuel elements totaling a core weight of 103 tons. It is a Konvoi type reactor, and is said to be one of the safest German nuclear power... |
1,329 | Germany | 52°28′27"N 07°19′04"E | |
Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant The Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Fessenheim commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France, north east of the Mulhouse urban area, within of the border with Germany, and approximately from Switzerland... |
1,760 | Early Modern France | 47°54′11"N 07°33′47"E | |
Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant The Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant is located at Flamanville, Manche, France on the Cotentin Peninsula.It houses two pressurized water reactors that produce 1300 MWe each and came into service in 1986 and 1987, respectively. It produced 18.9 TWh in 2005, which amounted to 4% of the electricity... |
2,6601600 MW reactor under construction | Early Modern France | 49°32′11"N 01°52′54"W | |
Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden, and also the site of the Swedish Final repository for radioactive operational waste... |
3,138 | Sweden | 60°24′12"N 18°10′00"E | |
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant The , also known as Fukushima Dai-ichi , is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a site in the towns of Okuma and Futaba in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. First commissioned in 1971, the plant consists of six boiling water reactors... |
1,8274 reactors with 2,719 MW permanently shutted down | Japan | 37°25′17"N 141°01′57"E | |
Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant The , or Fukushima Dai-ni , is a nuclear power plant located on a site in the town of Naraha and Tomioka in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan... |
4,268 | Japan | 37°19′10"N 141°01′16"E | |
Genkai Nuclear Power Plant Genkai Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Genkai in the Higashimatsuura District in the Saga Prefecture. It is owned and operated by the Kyūshū Electric Power Company.Unit 3 has been selected as a special Plutonium fuel test case... |
3,312 | Japan | 33°30′56"N 129°50′14"E | |
Golfech Nuclear Power Plant Golfech Nuclear Power Plant The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Golfech , on the border of Garonne between Agen and Toulouse on the Garonne River, from where it gets cooling water, and approximately 40 km west of Montauban.The station has two operating nuclear reactors that are both pressurized... |
2,620 | Early Modern France | 44°06′24"N 00°50′43"E | |
Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant The Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant is located near Grafenrheinfeld, south of Schweinfurt in Main. Commencement of construction was in 1974, start-up took place 1981. It is a German third generation PWR with an electrical net power of 1345 megawatts... |
1,275 | Germany | 49°59′02"N 10°11′05"E | |
Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station Grand Gulf nuclear power station is a General Electric boiling water reactor. It lies on a site near Port Gibson, Mississippi. The site is wooded and contains two lakes. The plant has a 520-foot cooling tower.... |
1,251 | United States | 32°0′24"N 91°2′54"W | |
Gravelines Nuclear Power Plant Gravelines Nuclear Power Plant The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station is the fifth largest nuclear power station in the world. It is located in Nord, France, approximately from Dunkerque and Calais. Its cooling water comes from the North Sea. The plant houses 6 nuclear reactors. Two entered service in 1980, two in 1981, and two... |
5,460 | Early Modern France | 51°00′55"N 02°08′10"E | |
Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant The Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant is located in Hamelin-Pyrmont in Lower Saxony. It has one reactor that uses 193 fuel assemblies and utilizes both Enriched Uranium and MOX fuel... |
1,360 | Germany | 52°02′07"N 09°24′48"E | |
Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant The Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant is the highest-output nuclear power station in Germany, producing 2 × 1344 megawatts. It is located in Gundremmingen, district of Günzburg, Bavaria and is operated by Kernkraftwerk Gundremmingen GmbH, a joint operation of RWE Power AG, based in Essen and E.ON... |
1,972237 MW reactor permanently shutted down | Germany | 48°30′53"N 10°24′08"E | |
Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located in Omaezaki city, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Japan's east coast, 200 km south-west of Tokyo. It is managed by the Chubu Electric Power Company. There are five units contained at a single site with a net area of 1.6 km2 . A sixth unit began construction... |
3,4732 reactors with 1,321 MW permanently shutted down | Japan | 34°37′25"N 138°08′33"E | |
Hartlepool nuclear power station | 1,190 | United Kingdom | 54°38′06"N 01°10′51"W | |
Heysham nuclear power station | 2,400 | United Kingdom | 54°01′44"N 02°54′58"W | |
Higashidōri Nuclear Power Plant Higashidori Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Higashidōri in eastern Aomori Prefecture, on the Shimokita Peninsula, facing the Pacific Ocean. It is unique in Japan in that at this four-unit site, two units are run by one company, the Tōhoku Electric Power Company and two units are run by the... |
1,067 | Japan | 41°11′17"N 141°23′25"E | |
Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station is a thermal nuclear power plant located in Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey, on the same site as the two-unit Salem Nuclear Power Plant. The plant is owned and operated by PSEG Nuclear LLC. It has one unit , a boiling water reactor manufactured by GE... |
1,191 | United States | 39°28′04"N 75°32′17"W | |
Ikata Nuclear Power Plant Ikata Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant in the town of Ikata in the Nishiuwa District in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. It is the only nuclear plant on the island of Shikoku. It is owned and operated by the Shikoku Electric Power Company.... |
1,922 | Japan | 33°29′27"N 132°18′41"E | |
Indian Point Energy Center Indian Point Energy Center Indian Point Energy Center is a three-unit nuclear power plant station located in Buchanan, New York just south of Peekskill. It sits on the east bank of the Hudson River, 38 miles north of New York City... |
2,062257 MW reactor permanently shutted down | United States | 41°16′11"N 73°57′08"W | |
Isar Nuclear Power Plant | 1,410878 MW reactor permanently shutted down | Germany | 48°36′20"N 12°17′35"E | |
Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Generating Station | 1,711 | United States | 31°13′23"N 85°06′42"W | |
Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant The Kalinin Nuclear Power Station is located about north west of Moscow, in Tver Oblast near the town of Udomlya. Owner and operator of the plant is the state enterprise Rosenergoatom. Kalinin Nuclear Power Station supplies the majority of electricity in the Tver region and additionally serves... |
2,850950 MW reactor under construction | Russia | 57°54′20"N 35°03′37"E | |
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant The is a large, modern nuclear power plant on a 4.2-square-kilometer site including land in the towns of Kashiwazaki and Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture, Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan, from where it gets cooling water... |
7,965 | Japan | 37°25′45"N 138°35′43"E | |
Khmelnitskiy Nuclear Power Plant Khmelnitskiy Nuclear Power Plant The Khmelnitskiy Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Netishyn, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. The plant is operated by Energoatom. Two VVER-1000 reactors are operational, each generating 1000 MW of electricity. Construction of the first reactor started in 1981 and the first unit was put in... |
1,900another 1,900 MW under construction | Ukraine | 50°18′5"N 26°38′59"E | |
Koeberg Nuclear Power Station Koeberg nuclear power station Koeberg nuclear power station is the only nuclear power station in South Africa and the entire African continent. It is located 30 km north of Cape Town, near Melkbosstrand on the west coast of South Africa. Koeberg is owned and operated by the country's only national electricity supplier, Eskom... |
1,800 | South Africa | 33°40′35"S 18°25′55"E | |
Kola Nuclear Power Plant Kola Nuclear Power Plant The Kola Nuclear Power Plant also known as Kolsk NPP or Kolskaya NPP, is a nuclear power plant in northern Russia.- History :The Phase 1 at the Kola NPP went online in 1973 and 1974, respectively, and are part of Russia’s first generation of PWR reactors . The Phase 2 The Kola Nuclear Power Plant... |
1,644 | Russia | 67°28′00"N 32°28′00"E | |
Kori Nuclear Power Plant Kori Nuclear Power Plant The Kori Nuclear Power Plant is a South Korean nuclear power plant located in Gori, a suburban village in Busan. It is owned and operated by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, a subsidiary of KEPCO... |
3,227 | South Korea | 35°19′01"N 129°18′00"E | |
Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Bulgaria situated north of Sofia and east of Kozloduy, a town on the Danube river, near the border with Romania. It is the country's only nuclear power plant and the largest in the region... |
1,9064 reactors with 1,632 MW permanently shutted down | Kingdom of Bulgaria | 43°44′46"N 23°46′14"E | |
Kuosheng Nuclear Power Plant | 1,933 | Republic of China | 25°12′11"N 121°39′46"E | |
Kursk Nuclear Power Plant Kursk Nuclear Power Plant The Nuclear power station Kursk is located in western Russia on the bank of the Seym River about 40 kilometers west of the city of Kursk. The nearby town of Kurchatov was founded when construction of the plant began... |
3,700915 MW reactor under construction | Russia | 51°40′30"N 35°36′20"E | |
Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station | 1,300 | Mexico | 19°43′15"N 96°24′23"W | |
LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station, located southeast of Ottawa, Illinois serves Chicago and northern Illinois with electricity. The plant is owned and operated by the Exelon Corporation. Its Units 1 and 2 began commercial operation in August 1982 and April 1984, respectively.It has... |
2,238 | United States | 41°14′44"N 88°40′9"W | |
Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant The Nuclear power station Leibstadt, abbreviated KKL, is in the municipality Leibstadt on the Rhine River close of the Aare delta and the German border... |
1,190 | Switzerland | 47°36′11"N 08°11′05"E | |
Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant under construction in Lemoniz, Spain in 1983 when the Spanish nuclear power expansion program was cancelled following a change of government... |
1,800 | Spain | 43°26′00"N 02°52′21"W | |
Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Sosnovy Bor in Russia's Leningrad Oblast, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, some to the west of the city centre of Saint Petersburg. It consists of four nuclear reactors of RBMK-1000 type. These reactors... |
3,700 | Russia | 59°50′50"N 29°02′37"E | |
Limerick Nuclear Power Plant Limerick Nuclear Power Plant The Limerick Generating Station in Pennsylvania is located next to the Schuylkill River in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia. The facility has two General Electric boiling water reactor units, cooled by natural draft cooling towers... |
2,264 | United States | 40°13′36"N 75°35′14"W | |
Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant | 3,876 | Mainland China | 22°36′17"N 114°33′5"E | |
McGuire Nuclear Station McGuire Nuclear Station The McGuire Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant located about northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, on the state's largest lake, Lake Norman. It is a 32,500-acre lake created in 1963 by Duke Power for the Cowans Ford Hydroelectric Station... |
2,200 | United States | 35°25′57"N 80°56′54"W | |
Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant | 1,841 | Republic of China | 21°57′29"N 120°45′6"E | |
Mihama Nuclear Power Plant Mihama Nuclear Power Plant The is operated by The Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. and is in the town of Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, about 320 km west of Tokyo. It is on a site that is 520,000 m2 of which 60% is green space.-Reactors on Site:-Events:... |
1,570 | Japan | 35°42′09"N 135°57′48"E | |
Millstone Nuclear Power Plant Millstone Nuclear Power Plant The Millstone Nuclear Power Station is the only nuclear power generation site in Connecticut. It is located at a former quarry in Waterford... |
2,102641 MW reactor permanently shutted down | United States | 41°18′43"N 72°10′07"W | |
Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim, Germany. It is sometimes abbreviated GKN . It is operated by EnBW Kernkraft GmbH.-GKN 1:... |
1,310785 MW reactor permanently shutted down | Germany | 49°02′30"N 09°10′30"E | |
Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station is a two-unit nuclear power plant located in the Town of Scriba, approximately five miles northeast of Oswego, New York, on the shore of Lake Ontario. The 900 acre site is also occupied by the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Generating Station.Nine Mile Point is operated... |
1,764 | United States | 43°31′15"N 76°24′25"W | |
Nogent Nuclear Power Plant Nogent Nuclear Power Plant The Nogent Nuclear Power Plant is located in the French commune of Nogent-sur-Seine, on the right bank of the Seine, in the west of the Aube department. It is located to the west of Troyes and south-east of Paris.... |
2,620 | Early Modern France | 48°30′55"N 03°31′04"E | |
North Anna Nuclear Generating Station North Anna Nuclear Generating Station The North Anna Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant on a site in Louisa County, Virginia. The site is operated by Dominion Generation company and is jointly owned by the Dominion Virginia Power corporation and by the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative .The plant has two Westinghouse... |
1,875 | United States | 38°03′38"N 77°47′22"W | |
Novovoronezhskaya Nuclear Power Plant | 1,7202 reactors with 533 MW permanently shutted down | Russia | 51°16′30"N 39°12′00"E | |
Oconee Nuclear Generating Station | 2,538 | United States | 34°47′38"N 82°53′53"W | |
Ōi Nuclear Power Plant Oi Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Ōi, Fukui Prefecture, managed by the Kansai Electric Power Company. The site is .-Reactors on site:-Events:... |
4,494 | Japan | 35°32′26"N 135°39′07"E | |
Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant | 1,7401,600 MW reactor under construction | Finland | 61°14′13"N 21°26′27"E | |
Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located on a 1,730,000 m2 site in Onagawa in the Oshika District and Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is managed by the Tohoku Electric Power Company... |
2,089 | Japan | 38°24′04"N 141°29′59"E | |
Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant The Nuclear power station Oskarshamn is one of three active nuclear power stations in Sweden. The plant is about 30 kilometers north of Oskarshamn directly at the Kalmarsund at the Baltic Sea coast and with three reactors producing about 10% of the electricity needs of Sweden... |
2,511 | Sweden | 57°24′56"N 16°40′16"E | |
Paks Nuclear Power Plant Paks Nuclear Power Plant The Paks Nuclear Power Plant , located from Paks, central Hungary, is the first and only operating nuclear power station in Hungary. Altogether, its four reactors produce more than 40 percent of the electrical power generated in the country.-Technical parameters:VVER is the Soviet designation for... |
1,889 | Hungary | 46°34′21"N 18°51′15"E | |
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located in Wintersburg, Arizona, about 45 miles west of central Phoenix. It is the largest nuclear generation facility in the United States, averaging over 3.3 gigawatts of electrical power production in 2008 to serve... |
3,942 | United States | 33°23′21"N 112°51′54"W | |
Paluel Nuclear Power Plant Paluel Nuclear Power Plant The Nuclear power station Paluel lies within the French town Paluel in Normandy in the Département Seine-Maritime. The nuclear power station, which consists of four 1330 MWe class pressurized water reactors, is about 40 kilometers far away from the city of Dieppe and employs approx. 1,250 full... |
5,320 | Early Modern France | 49°51′29"N 00°38′08"E | |
Penly Nuclear Power Plant Penly Nuclear Power Plant The Penly Nuclear power station is found some northeast of Dieppe. It lies on the border of two French municipalities: Penly and Saint-Martin-en-Campagne in the département of Seine-Maritime, Normandy, on the English Channel coast.-Data:... |
2,660 | Early Modern France | 49°58′36"N 01°12′43"E | |
Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, a nuclear power plant, is located southeast of Harrisburg in Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River on the Maryland border.... |
2,23440 MW reactor permanently shutted down | United States | 39°45′30"N 76°16′05"W | |
Perry Nuclear Generating Station Perry Nuclear Generating Station The Perry Nuclear Power Plant is located on a 1,100-acre site on Lake Erie, 40 miles northeast of Cleveland in North Perry, Ohio, USA... |
1,240 | United States | 41°48′03"N 81°08′36"W | |
Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant The Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant is located in Philippsburg in Karlsruhe . It is operated by EnBW Kernkraft GmbH.It houses two units, the first a BWR and the second a PWR .... |
1,402890 MW reactor permanently shutted down | Germany | 49°15′09"N 08°26′11"E | |
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station Pickering Nuclear Generating Station Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Pickering, Ontario. The facility derives its name from the City of Pickering in which it is located.... |
4,1242 reactors with 1030 MW long-term shutted down | Canada | 43°48′42"N 79°03′57"W | |
Point Beach Nuclear Plant | 1,027 | United States | 44°16′52"N 87°32′12"W | |
Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant The Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant is an electricity-generating facility located in Red Wing, Minnesota along the Mississippi River, adjacent to the Prairie Island Indian Community reservation. The nuclear power plant, which first began operating in 1973, has two nuclear reactors made by... |
1,114 | United States | 44°37′18"N 92°37′59"W | |
Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant The Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant is a multi-unit nuclear plant under construction in Qinshan Town, Haiyan County, Zhejiang, the People's Republic of China. When completed, it may hold the record for the most nuclear reactors on one site; however, since the majority of the units are mid-size, it may... |
3,428reactor with 610 MW under construction | Mainland China | 30°26′08"N 120°57′23"E | |
Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station Quad Cities Generating Station is a two-unit nuclear power plant located near Cordova, Illinois, USA on the Mississippi River. The two General Electric boiling water reactors give the plant a total electric capacity of approximately 1,824 MW... |
1,774 | United States | 41°43′35"N 90°18′36"W | |
Rajasthan Atomic Power Station | 1,085reactor with 630 MW under construction | India | 24°52′20"N 75°36′50"E | |
Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant | 3,649 | Sweden | 57°15′35"N 12°06′39"E | |
Rivne Nuclear Power Plant Rivne Nuclear Power Plant The Rivne Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Kuznetsovsk, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine.It has four reactors: -External links:* *... |
2,645 | Ukraine | 51°19′40"N 25°53′30"E | |
Rostov Nuclear Power Plant | 1,9002,022 MW under construction | Russia | 47°35′58"N 42°22′19"E | |
Rivne Nuclear Power Plant Rivne Nuclear Power Plant The Rivne Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Kuznetsovsk, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine.It has four reactors: -External links:* *... |
2,657 | Ukraine | 51°19′40"N 25°53′30"E | |
Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Plant Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Plant The Saint-Alban nuclear power plant is located on the Rhone river, in the Isere department 50 km upstream from Lyon in the communes of Saint-Alban-du-Rhône and Saint-Maurice-l'Exil.-Description:... |
2,670 | Early Modern France | 45°24′16"N 04°45′16"E | |
Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant The Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Station is located in the commune of Saint-Laurent-Nouan in Loir-et-Cher on the Loire River – 28 km downstream from Blois and 30 km upstream from Orléans.... |
1,8302 reactors with 855 MW permanently shutted down | Early Modern France | 47°43′12"N 01°34′39"E | |
Saint Lucie Nuclear Power Station St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant is a twin nuclear power station located on Hutchinson Island, near Ft. Pierce, Florida in St. Lucie County. Both units are Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactors... |
1,678 | United States | 27°20′55"N 80°14′47"W | |
Salem Nuclear Power Plant Salem Nuclear Power Plant The Salem Nuclear Power Plant is a two unit pressurized water reactor nuclear power station located in Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey, in the United States. It is owned by PSEG Nuclear LLC and Exelon Generation LLC.... |
2,332 | United States | 39°27′46"N 75°32′08"W | |
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located on the Pacific coast of California. The site is in the northwestern corner of San Diego County, south of San Clemente, and surrounded by the San Onofre State Park and next to the I-5 Highway.Unit 1 is no longer in service... |
2,150436 MW reactor permanently shutted down | United States | 33°22′08"N 117°33′18"W | |
Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, more commonly known as Seabrook Station, is a nuclear power plant located in Seabrook, New Hampshire, approximately north of Boston and south of Portsmouth. Two units were planned, but the second unit was never completed due to construction delays, cost overruns... |
1,247 | United States | 42°53′56"N 70°51′03"W | |
Sendai Nuclear Power Plant Sendai Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located in the city of Satsumasendai in the Kagoshima Prefecture. It is owned and operated by the Kyūshū Electric Power Company.The plant is on a site of 1.45 km2 , employs 277 workers, and indirectly employs 790.... |
1,692 | Japan | 31°50′01"N 130°11′23"E | |
Sequoyah Nuclear Generating Station Sequoyah Nuclear Generating Station The Sequoyah Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located on 525 acres located 7 miles east of Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, and 20 miles north of Chattanooga, abutting Chickamauga Lake, on the Tennessee River. The facility is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority .The... |
2,278 | United States | 35°13′35"N 85°05′30"W | |
Shika Nuclear Power Plant Shika Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Shika, Ishikawa, Japan. It is owned and operated by the Hokuriku Electric Power Company. It is on a site that is 1.6 km2 .-Reactors on Site:-1999 Criticality Event:... |
1,613 | Japan | 37°03′40"N 136°43′35"E | |
Shimane Nuclear Power Plant Shimane Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Kashima-chou in the city of Matsue in the Shimane Prefecture. It is owned and operated by the Chūgoku Electric Power Company.This plant was once said to be the closest nuclear power plant to a prefecture capital... |
1,2281,325 MW under construction | Japan | 35°32′18"N 132°59′57"E | |
Shin Kori Nuclear Power Plant | 1,0013,640 MW under construction | South Korea | 35°19′12"N 129°17′47"E | |
Sizewell-B Nuclear Power Station | 1,188 | United Kingdom | 52°12′48"N 01°37′07"E | |
Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant Smolensk nuclear power plant Nuclear power station Smolensk is a nuclear power station in Russia. It is located in the Smolensk region, in Desnogorsk province, approximately 100 km from Smolensk, 120 km from Bryansk and 320 km from Moscow... |
2,775 | Russia | 54°10′09"N 33°14′48"E | |
South Texas Nuclear Generating Station South Texas Nuclear Generating Station The South Texas Project Electric Generating Station , is a nuclear power station southwest of Bay City, Texas, United States. The STP occupies a 12,200 acre site on the Colorado River about 90 miles southwest of Houston... |
2,560 | United States | 28°47′44"N 96°02′56"W | |
South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant The South Ukraine Nuclear Power Station , is a nuclear power station in Ukraine.It is located near the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk in Mykolaiv province, approximately south of Kiev. The nuclear power station has three VVER-1000 reactors and a net generation capacity of 2,850 megawatts... |
2,850 | Ukraine | 47°49′00"N 31°13′00"E | |
Surry Nuclear Power Plant Surry Nuclear Power Plant Surry Power Station is a nuclear power plant located in Surry County in southeastern Virginia. The power station lies on an 840-acre site adjacent to the James River across from Jamestown, slightly upriver from Smithfield and Newport News... |
1,638 | United States | 37°09′56"N 76°41′52"W | |
Susquehanna Steam Electric Station Susquehanna Steam Electric Station The Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, a nuclear power station, is in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, just south of Shickshinny, in Salem Township, Pennsylvania, United States... |
2,429 | United States | 41°05′20"N 76°08′56"W | |
Takahama Nuclear Power Plant Takahama Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Takahama, Ōi District, Fukui Prefecture. It is owned and operated by the Kansai Electric Power Company. It is on a site with an area of 1.6 km2.-Reactors on Site:... |
3,220 | Japan | 35°31′20"N 135°30′17"E | |
Tarapur Atomic Power Station Tarapur Atomic Power Station Tarapur Atomic Power Station is located in Tarapur, Maharashtra . It was initially constructed with two boiling water reactor units of 160 MW each by Bechtel and GE under the 1963 123 Agreement between India, the United States, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Units 1 and 2 were... |
1,280 | India | 19°49′40"N 72°39′40"E | |
Temelin Nuclear Power Station Temelín Nuclear Power Station Temelín Nuclear Power Station is located near Temelín, a small village in the Czech Republic. Temelín NPP is owned by ČEZ Group, which employs 1000 workers at this site. The adjacent castle Vysoký Hrádek serves as an information centre.-History:... |
1,926 | Czech Republic | 49°10′48"N 14°22′34"E | |
Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant Tianwan Nuclear Power Station is a large nuclear power station in Lianyungang prefecture level city, Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. It is considered to be the largest nuclear plant on mainland China... |
1,866 | Mainland China | 34°41′13"N 119°27′35"E | |
Tihange Nuclear Power Station | 3,016 | Belgium | 50°32′05"N 05°16′21"E | |
Tokai Nuclear Power Plant Tokai Nuclear Power Plant The was Japan's first nuclear power plant. It was built in the early 1960s to the British Magnox design, and generated power from 1966 until it was decommissioned in 1998. A second nuclear plant, built at the site in the 1970s, was the first in Japan to produce over 1000 MW of electricity, and... |
1,060137 MW reactor permanently shutted down | Japan | 36°27′59"N 140°36′24"E | |
Tomari Nuclear Power Plant Tomari Nuclear Power Plant The is the only nuclear power plant in Hokkaidō, Japan. It is located in the town of Tomari in the Furuu District and managed by the Hokkaido Electric Power Company. All of the reactors are Mitsubishi designs... |
1,966 | Japan | 43°02′10"N 140°30′45"E | |
Torness Nuclear Power Station Torness nuclear power station Torness nuclear power station was the last of the United Kingdom's second generation nuclear power plants to be commissioned. Construction of this facility began in 1980 for the then South of Scotland Electricity Board and it was commissioned in 1988... |
1,205 | United Kingdom | 55°58′05"N 02°24′33"W | |
Tricastin Nuclear Power Center Tricastin Nuclear Power Center The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant is a collection of sites run by Areva and EDF located in 4 different communes Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Pierrelatte in Drôme, Bollène and Lapalud in Vaucluse, and four departments on right bank of the Channel of Donzère-Mondragon between Valence The Tricastin... |
3,660 | Early Modern France | 44°19′47"N 04°43′56"E | |
Trillo Nuclear Power Plant Trillo Nuclear Power Plant Trillo Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station in Spain.It consists of one pressurized water reactor of 1066 MWe. Construction of unit one began in 1979, and first criticality was on 14 May 1988.... |
1,003 | Spain | 40°42′04"N 02°37′19"W | |
Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant The is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture. It is operated by the Japan Atomic Power Company. The total site area amounts to 5.12 km2 with 4.80 km2, or 94% of it, being green area that the company is working to preserve.The Tsuruga site is a dual site with the... |
1,448 | Japan | 35°40′22"N 136°04′38"E | |
Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station is a twin reactor nuclear power station located on a 3,300-acre site 2 miles east of Homestead, Florida, United States, next to Biscayne National Park located about 25 miles south of Miami, Florida near the southernmost edge of Miami-Dade... |
1,386 | United States | 25°26′03"N 80°19′50"W | |
Ulchin Nuclear Power Plant Ulchin Nuclear Power Plant The Uljin Nuclear Power Plant is a large nuclear power station in the Gyeongsangbuk-do province of South Korea. The facility runs at an installed capacity of 5,881 MW. There is one 942 MW unit, one 945 MW unit, one 994 MW unit, one 998 MW unit, and two 1,001 MW units.... |
5,873 | South Korea | 37°5′34"N 129°23′1"E | |
Yeonggwang Nuclear Power Station Yeonggwang Nuclear Power Station The Yeonggwang Nuclear Power Plant is a large nuclear power station in the Jeollanam-do province of South Korea. The facility runs at an installed capacity of . The power station is currently ranked as the fifth largest nuclear power station in the world.... |
5,875 | South Korea | 35°24′54"N 126°25′26"E | |
Vandellòs Nuclear Power Station Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant The Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station in Vandellòs located close to the Coll de Balaguer pass in Catalonia, Spain.... |
1,045480 MW reactor permanently shutted down | Spain | 40°57′05"N 00°52′00"E | |
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Vogtle Electric Generating Plant The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle, is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia... |
2,302 | United States | 33°08′35"N 81°45′57"W | |
Waterford Nuclear Generating Station Waterford Nuclear Generating Station The Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, also known as Waterford 3, is a nuclear power plant located on a 3,000-acre plot in Killona, Louisiana, in St. Charles Parish.... |
1,168 | United States | 29°59′42"N 90°28′17"W | |
Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station The Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station is a Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear reactor used for electric power generation and tritium production for nuclear weapons. It is located on a 1,770-acre site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between the cities of Chattanooga and Knoxville... |
1,1231,165 MW reactor under construction | United States | 29°59′42"N 90°28′17"W | |
Wolf Creek Generating Station | 1,160 | United States | 38°14′20"N 95°41′20"W | |
Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant The Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located on the coast near Nae-ri, Yangnm-myeon, Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea. It is famous as the only South Korean nuclear power plant operating CANDU-type PHWR... |
2,722 | South Korea | 35°42′40"N 129°28′30"E | |
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and the third largest in the world.The plant is located in Central Ukraine near the city of Enerhodar, on the banks of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper river. It has 6 VVER-1000 pressurized light... |
5,700 | Ukraine | 47°30′44"N 34°35′09"E | |
Power stations under construction
This table lists stations under construction or operational stations with under-construction reactors and current net capacity under . Expected connection column indicate connection of first reactor, not thus not whole capacity.Power station | Capacity (MW) | Expected connection | Country | Location Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on the Earth to be specified by a set of numbers. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represent vertical position, and two or three of the numbers represent horizontal position... |
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Belene Nuclear Power Plant Belene Nuclear Power Plant The Belene Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant currently under construction 3 km from Belene and 11 km from Svishtov in Pleven Province, northern Bulgaria, near the Danube River... |
1,906 | 2012 | Kingdom of Bulgaria | 43°37′46"N 25°11′12"E |
Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station The Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station , was the second of the then Soviet Union's nuclear plants. It is situated by Zarechny in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Zarechny township was created to service the station, which is named after the Beloyarsky District... |
1,364560 MW reactor is operational | 2014 | Russia | 56°50′30"N 61°19′21"E |
Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant is an under-construction nuclear power plant in Tangxing Village of Haiwei Township, Changjiang Li Autonomous County in the province of Hainan... |
1,220 | 2014 | Mainland China | 19°25′23"N 108°48′45"E |
Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Plant Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Plant Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant under construction in Fangchenggang, autonomous region of Guangxi of the People's Republic of China. The construction of the first reactor at Phase 1 started on July 30, 2010. Once completed, the first phase will be one of two... |
2,000 | 2015 | Mainland China | 21°40′36"N 108°33′38"E |
Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in the Zhejiang province, China, adjacent to the existing Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant.Two 1,080 megawatt CPR-1000 pressurized water reactors are under construction, at a total cost of 26 billion yuan .'First concrete' for the... |
2,000 | 2013 | Mainland China | 30°26′29"N 120°56′30"E |
Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant The Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Fuqing, Fujian Province, PRC.The plant is on the coast at the foot of Qiwei Mountain, near Qianxue Village, Sanshan Town.... |
3,000 | 2013 | Mainland China | 25°26′39"N 119°26′46"E |
Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant Two units at the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant are under construction in Haiyang, Shandong province, China. It is planned to go online in 2014 and will be the second site to house AP1000 units, after the Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant. Groundbreaking happened one month ahead of schedule on... |
2,000 | 2014 | Mainland China | 36°42′33"N 121°22′54"E |
Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant The Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant is one of the newest NPP projects in the world as of 2007. It is located in Donggang Town, Wafangdian in the Liaoning Province of China. The site is within the Prefecture-level city of Dalian, 104 km north of Dalian City proper... |
4,000 | 2012 | Mainland China | 39°47′52"N 121°28′19"E |
Kakrapar Atomic Power Station Kakrapar Atomic Power Station The Kakrapar Atomic Power Station is a nuclear power station in India, which lies in the proximity of the city of Surat in the state of Gujarat. It consists of two 220 MW pressurized water reactors with heavy water as moderator . KAPS-1 went critical on 3 September 1992 and began... |
1,664two 202 MW reactors are operational | 2015 | India | 21°14′19"N 73°21′00"E |
Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station currently under construction in Koodankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu... |
1,834 | 2011 | India | 8°10′06"N 77°42′45"E |
Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II | 2,170 | 2013 | Russia | 59°49′50"N 29°3′26"E |
Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant The Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant , located in Gongliao Township, is Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant, consisting of two ABWRs each of 1,350 MWe... |
2,600 | 2011 | Republic of China | 25°02′19"N 121°55′27"E |
Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant The Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located between the towns of Nitra and Levice, on the site of the former village of Mochovce. Two up-rated 470 MW reactors are presently in operation, with two further reactors of the same type under construction... |
1,654872 MW operational | 2012 | Slovakia | 48°15′50"N 18°27′25"E |
Ningde Nuclear Power Plant Ningde Nuclear Power Plant Ningde Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Fujian province, China.The site is located in Beiwan village in the town of Qinyu, Fuding, Ningde, Fujian.... |
4,000 | 2012 | Mainland China | 27°02′46"N 120°17′18"E |
Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II is a Russian nuclear power plant currently under construction and expected to come online in 2012. It is being built on the same site as the present Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant.- History :In 2006,, the Russian government legislated a nuclear expansion plan... |
2,228 | 2012 | Russia | 59°49′50"N 29°3′26"E |
Ōma Nuclear Power Plant Oma Nuclear Power Plant The is a future nuclear plant in Ōma, Aomori currently undergoing preliminary ground work that will be operated by the Electric Power Development Company... |
1,325 | 2014 | Japan | 41°30′35"N 140°54′37"E |
Sanmen Nuclear Power Station | 2,000 | 2013 | Mainland China | 29°06′04"N 121°38′23"E |
Shin Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant | 1,920 | 2012 | South Korea | 35°43′20"N 129°28′44"E |
Taishan Nuclear Power Plant Taishan Nuclear Power Plant Two units at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant are under construction in Chixizhen, Taishan, Guangdong province, China.It is planned to go online in 2013 and will be the third site to house Areva's 1,700 megawatt European Pressurized Reactor units.The project is owned by Guangdong Taishan... |
3,400 | 2013 | Mainland China | 21°54′34"N 112°58′45"E |
Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant | 3,000 | 2013 | Mainland China | 21°42′35"N 112°15′38"E |
Shut-down power stations
This table lists stations that are permanently shut down and had net capacity over . Stations with both operational and permanently shut-down reactors and current capacity under 1,000 MW (but in the past over 1,000 MW) are also listed.Power station | Past capacity (MW) | Country | Location Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on the Earth to be specified by a set of numbers. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represent vertical position, and two or three of the numbers represent horizontal position... |
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Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant Barsebäck nuclear power plant Barsebäck is a closed boiling water nuclear power plant in Sweden, which is situated in Barsebäck, Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne. Located just 20 kilometers from the Danish capital, Copenhagen, the Danish government pressed for its closure during its entire lifetime. As a result of the Swedish... |
1,200 | Sweden | 55°44′40"N 12°55′15"E |
Biblis Nuclear Power Plant Biblis Nuclear Power Plant The Biblis Nuclear Power Plant is in the South Hessian municipality of Biblis and consists of two units: unit A with a gross output of 1200 megawatts and unit B with a gross output of 1300 megawatts. Both units are pressurized water reactors... |
2,407 | Germany | 49°42′36"N 08°24′55"E |
Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant | 1,853944 MW operational | Slovakia | 48°29′40"N 17°40′55"E |
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant or Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Ukraine–Belarus border, and about north of Kiev. Reactor 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster in... |
3,515 | Ukraine | 51°23′22"N 30°05′57"E |
Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant The Nuclear power station Greifswald , also known as nuclear power station Lubmin, was the largest nuclear power station in East Germany before closure shortly after the German reunification. The plants were of the VVER-440/V-230 type, which was the first generation of Soviet Union designed plants... |
2,040 | Germany | 54°08′26"N 13°39′52"E |
Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is a closed two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas, Lithuania. It was named after the nearby city of Ignalina... |
2,370 | Lithuania | 55°36′16"N 26°33′36"E |
Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Geesthacht near Hamburg, Germany. It was taken into operation in 1983 and is owned 50% by Vattenfall via Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy GmbH and 50% by E.ON, and operated by the Swedish Vattenfall... |
1,346 | Germany | 53°24′36"N 10°24′32"E |
Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant The nuclear power station Mülheim Kärlich lies on the Rhine, about 10 km northwest from Koblenz, close to the town Mülheim-Kärlich. The operating company was Société Luxembourgeoise de Centrales Nucléaires, a daughter company of RWE... |
1,219 | Germany | 50°24′29"N 07°29′24"E |
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station is a civilian nuclear power plant located on Three Mile Island in the Susquehanna River, south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It has two separate units, known as TMI-1 and TMI-2... |
1,685805 MW reactor operational | United States | 40°09′14"N 76°43′29"W |
Superphénix Superphénix Superphénix or SPX was a nuclear power station on the Rhône River at Creys-Malville in France, close to the border with Switzerland. A fast breeder reactor, it halted electricity production in 1996 and was closed as a commercial plant in 1997.... |
1,200 | Early Modern France | 45°45′30"N 05°28′20"E |
Trojan Nuclear Power Plant Trojan Nuclear Power Plant Trojan Nuclear Power Plant was a pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant located southeast of Rainier, Oregon, United States, and the only commercial nuclear power plant to be built in Oregon. After sixteen years of service it was closed by its operator, Portland General Electric , almost... |
1,095 | United States | 46°02′18"N 122°53′06"W |
Unterweser Nuclear Power Plant Unterweser Nuclear Power Plant The nuclear power station Unterweser is a nuclear power plant in Kleinensiel , in close proximity to Nordenham.When it first started up, it was the largest nuclear reactor in the world. It has 193 fuel assemblies... |
1,345 | Germany | 53°25′40"N 08°28′49"E |
Zion Nuclear Power Station Zion Nuclear Power Station Zion Nuclear Power Station was the third dual-reactor nuclear power plant in the Commonwealth Edison network and served Chicago and the northern quarter of Illinois. The plant was built in 1973, and the first unit started producing power in December, 1973. The second unit came online in September... |
2,080 | United States | 42°26′47"N 87°48′11"W |
See also
External links
- PRIS (Power Reactor Information System) database maintained by International Atomic Energy AgencyInternational Atomic Energy AgencyThe International Atomic Energy Agency is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organization on 29 July 1957...
- World Nuclear Power Reactors database maintained by World Nuclear AssociationWorld Nuclear AssociationThe World Nuclear Association , formerly the Uranium Institute, is an international organization that promotes nuclear power and supports the many companies that comprise the global nuclear industry...