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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 ...
Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons, these are the United States, Russia (the successor of the former Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, France, and China. Of these, the three NATO members, the United ...
The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, the world's largest fully operational nuclear power facility. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station. The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant. The Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant. The Ōi Nuclear Power Plant. The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.
This is a list of all the commercial nuclear reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. The list only includes civilian nuclear power reactors used to generate electricity for a power grid. All commercial nuclear reactors use nuclear fission. As of July 2024, there are 415 operable power reactors in the world, with a ...
This article lists the largest power stations in the world, the ten overall and the five of each type, in terms of installed electrical capacity. Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal , fuel oils , nuclear fuel , natural gas , oil shale and peat , while renewable power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass , geothermal ...
Japan, South Korea and Poland [citation needed] are generally considered de facto nuclear states due to their believed ability to wield nuclear weapons within 1 to 3 years. [17] [18] [19] South Africa produced six nuclear weapons in the 1980s, but dismantled them in the early 1990s. South Africa signed the NPT in 1991.
Maria reactor - 30 MW research reactor. Anna reactor - 10 kW research reactor (dismantled) Agata reactor - 10 W zero-power research reactor (dismantled) Maryla reactor - 100 W zero-power research reactor (dismantled) UR-100 reactor - 100 kW training reactor (dismantled) Name. Location. Type. Purpose.
S. Nuclear power in Slovakia (1 C, 1 P) Nuclear power in Slovenia (1 C, 1 P) Nuclear power in South Africa (2 C, 1 P) Nuclear power in South Korea (2 C, 9 P) Nuclear power in Spain (2 C, 5 P) Nuclear power in Sweden (2 C, 4 P) Nuclear power in Switzerland (2 C, 2 P)