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Germany
Abandoned Constructions
6
Operating
6
Closed
30
Number of Reactors
(as of January 2021)
34.1
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of January 2021)
12.3%
Stable
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2019)
85.4
Annual Load Factor
(2019)
WNISR
in the Media –
6 April 2021 [fr]
Politis (France)
Nucléaire : Une filière mondiale sous perfusion
Le déclin du nucléaire dans le monde, amorcé avant Fukushima, s’est nettement accentué sous l’impact de la catastrophe, au point de menacer à terme la survie de cette technologie. Par Patrick Piro Publié le 3 Mars 2021 Tout est dit, ou presque, en un unique graphique. À son apogée, en 2002, le parc nucléaire mondial comptait 438 réacteurs en fonctionnement. En 2020, ce nombre est tombé à 412 (lire p. 20), relève le World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
, État mondial annuel de l’industrie (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
25 March 2021 [de]
taz (Germany)
Keine strahlende Zukunft
Zum Fukushima-Jubiläum heißt es wieder: Kann die Atomenergie das Klima retten? Die Zahlen sprechen dagegen. Die Politik scheut das Thema. Von Bernhard Pötter Veröffentlicht am 13.03.2021 Für Bundesumweltministerin Svenja Schulze (
SPD
) sind es schlicht „Märchen“: Derzeit würden „kleine Reaktoren propagiert, die Atommüll fressen und ungefährlich sein sollen“, erklärte sie zum 10 Jahrestag der Nuklearkatastrophe von Fukushima am 11. März der Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung. Aber auch diese Ideen lösten die (...)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).
WNISR
in the Media –
7 June 2018
Physics World (
UK
)
Germany stays on track
Germany is continuing with its nuclear phase-out, while pushing renewables strongly, despite recent policy changes, says Dave Elliott Physics World, 31 May 2018 by Dave Elliott Germany is continuing with its nuclear phase-out, while pushing renewables strongly, with well over
100GW
of wind and solar so far. Renewables overall, including hydro and biomass, should soon be supplying nearly 40% of the country’s electricity. That has been helped by the fall in the costs of wind and
PV
(...)