STATUS REPORT | STATISTICS Reactor summary: 2022


THESE TABLES LIST THE NUMBER of commercial power reactors that are operable, under construction, planned and under decommissioning, as of 31st December 2022. Japanese units in long-term shutdown are counted as operable. Table 3 includes one column of planned reactors: this does not include longer-term, more speculative projects, but it does include projects where contracts have been signed to those included in national plans or other official statements. ■


Table 1: Commercial power reactors under construction by country and reactor type in 2022


PWR Argentina Bangladesh


Belarus, Republic of Brazil China Egypt France India* Iran


Japan


Korea, South Russia


Slovakia Turkiye UK


Ukraine


United Arab Emirates 21310 USA


Total 2 2234 33 35329 17 18054 2 2653 3 1890 4 2054


*Other reactor types excluded. China excludes one 210MWe HTR; India excludes one 500MWe FBR.


34020 2 2400 2 880 44456 2 3260 22070 1 300


11340 18 19000


2 2200 1 1630 4 3668 11630 22653 2 1284 3 1890 1 470 VVER BWR PHWR FBR


Units MWe Units MWe Units MWe Units MWe Units MWe 125


2 2150 1 1110


Table 2: Operable commercial power reactors by country and reactor type in 2022


PWR


Argentina Armenia


Belarus, Republic of Belgium Brazil


Bulgaria Canada China


Czech Republic Finland France


Germany Hungary India Iran


Japan


Korea, South Mexico


Netherlands Pakistan Romania Russia* Slovakia Slovenia


South Africa Spain


Sweden


Switzerland Taiwan (PRC) UK*


Ukraine


United Arab Emirates 2 2834 USA


Total


100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0


62 67306 VVER BWR PHWR


Units MWe Units MWe Units MWe Units MWe 31760


1451 1 1200


7 6228 2 2007


2 2080


47 45895 4 4306 6 4160


1 1720 2 1062 2 1820 56 64284 34291


4 2000


2 2000 2 420 18 4750 1 1000


16 14838 22 23463


1515 4 1330


22 21015 4 1950


1727 21940 5 6308 22091 31795 2 1902 1 1250


15 13880 31 34002 239 250724 64 54366 62 65227 48 26631


*Country has other types. Russia: one 600MWe FBR and one 800MWe FBR, 9 1000MWe RBMK, three 12MWe LWGRs and two 40MWe KLT-40S. UK: 14 advanced gas-cooled reactors (9112MWe).


1 1095 4


1 1275 2 1970


17 18299 3 2189 21610


1 100 21411


19 14965 2 1456


4786


Height of bars correspond to % of total electricity, width to TWh generated. Source: World Nuclear Association and IAEA Power Reactor Information System


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Percentage share of nuclear electricity generated in 2022


France


62.6% (282.1 TWh)


Slovakia Ukraine


Hungary Bulgaria


Belgium Slovenia


Czech Republic Armenia Finland


Switzerland Sweden


59.2% (14.8 TWh) 55.0% (81.1 TWh) 47.0% (15.0 TWh) 32.5% (15.8 TWh) 46.4% (41.7 TWh)


36.9% (5.4 TWh) 36.7% (29.3 TWh)


25.3% (1.8 TWh) 35% (24.2 TWh) 36.4% (23.2 TWh) 29.5% (50.0 TWh)


Korea


30.4% (167.5 TWh)


Spain


20.3% (56.2 TWh)


Russia


19.6% (209.5 TWh)


Romania


18.5% (10.4 TWh)


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