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World Nuclear Power Reactors 1951–2023
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Abandoned Constructions
1
Operating
6
Closed
7
Number of Reactors
(as of December 2023)
41.4
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of December 2023)
29.4%
Decrease
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2022)
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in the Media –
7 September 2023 [sv]
Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden)
Talet om att dubbla kärnkraften är bortom all rim och reson
DebattDet tyska statsägda företaget Uniper, som är stor delägare i de tre svenska kärnkraftverken, meddelade i början av augusti att företaget inte överväger att investera i ny kärnkraft i Sverige. Ändå säger klimat- och miljöministern att den svenska kärnkraften ska byggas ut till det dubbla. Hur ska det gå ihop? skriver Göran Bryntse och Thomas B Johansson. 7 September 2023 • Göran Bryntse (Tekn Dr, Ordf. i
SERO
) & Thomas B Johansson (Professor emeritus i Energisystem) En svensk (...)
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Essential News –
3 January 2021
WNISR
Permanent Closure of Swedish Reactor Ringhals-1
WNISR
3 January 2021 On 1 January 2021, Swedish energy company Vattenfall announced that its 46-year-old Ringhals-1 reactor had been closed. Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant — Photo Vattenfall The 760-
MW
Boiling Water Reactor (
BWR
), located on the Varo Peninsula 65km from Gothenburg, was connected to the grid on 14 October 1974 and was closed on 31 December 2020. The Ringhals plant is owned by Vattenfall (70.4%) and Sydkraft Nuclear Power (29.6%). A parliamentary motion on 22 January (...)
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
Essential News –
21 June 2017
Sweden Retires First Commercial Nuclear Reactor (Oskarshamn-1)
Sweden Retires First Commercial Nuclear Reactor (Oskarshamn-1) World Nuclear Industry Status Report (
WNISR
), 20 June 2017 On 17 June 2017, the oldest Swedish nuclear reactor Oskarshamn-1 (O1) generated its last kilowatthour. After an “operational disturbance” that led to an automatic shutdown, operator-owner
OKG
decided on 19 June 2017 to keep the unit off-line. In 2015, the owner scheduled the reactor to close on 29 June 2017 and with only ten days left to go,
OKG
decided, it was not (...)