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Abandoned Constructions
2
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3
Number of Reactors
(as of January 2022)
38
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of January 2022)
12.7%
Stable
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2020)
WNISR
Essential News –
15 February 2022
WNISR
– Nuclear Power 2021
Highest Number of Reactor Closures in a Decade
2021 in nuclear numbers—Six reactor startups, ten less than planned at the beginning of the year. Eight closures plus two closure announcements. Ten construction starts. Three reactors in Long-Term Outage (
LTO
) restarted, two closed. As of 1 January 2022, 412 reactors in operation, 25 in
LTO
, and 55 under construction. The Year 2021 saw the largest number of nuclear reactor closures in a decade, since 2011, when the Fukushima disaster began. Three of the six remaining units were closed in (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
12 October 2021 [fr]
Reporterre (France)
En déclin, le nucléaire distancé par les renouvelables
En 2020, la production d’électricité nucléaire dans le monde a diminué, selon un rapport tout juste paru. Les réacteurs vieillissants ne sont pas remplacés assez vite, tandis que les énergies renouvelables sont de plus en plus compétitives. par Hervé Kempf Publié le 29 Septembre 2021 La France, ou du moins les partis de droite, de M. Macron à M. Zemmour, s’accroche-t-elle désespérément à une industrie du passé
? C’est ce qu’on peut penser en lisant le World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021, un rapport de (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
23 March 2021
Taipei Times (Taïwan)
Nuclear power not an option: Su
CHANGING
TRENDS
: A world report showed that in 2019, non-hydro renewables surpassed nuclear power in global electricity generation, environmentalists said By Lee I-chia / Taipei Times Staff reporter Additional reporting by
CNA
Published 21 March 2021 Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday said that reviving the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant project would be impossible, adding that the government has always believed that the power plant should not be started. Su made the remarks in response to (...)
WNISR
Essential News –
24 September 2019
Closure of Chin Shan-2 Ends Operations at Taiwan’s First Nuclear Power Plant
WNISR
, 22 September 2019 The Chin Shan-2 reactor (also known as Jinshan and First Nuclear Power Plant) was officially closed on 15 July 2019 when its 40-year operating license expired. The reactor, located in Shimen, New Taipei, in northern Taiwan, had remained shut down since June 2017—and thus had been considered by
WNISR
as in Long-Term Outage (
LTO
) up until 15 July. The closure of Unit 2 brings to an end electricity generation at Taiwan’s first nuclear power plant, following the closure of (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
7 November 2018
Taipei Times (Taiwan)
Nuclear power generation ‘waning’
Taipei Times By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter Wed, Nov 07, 2018 - Page 3 Environmentalists yesterday released a video by Mycle Schneider, a lead author of the latest World Nuclear Industry Status Report, who said that global nuclear power generation has been declining, except in China, and that costs of nuclear power generation are rising. Schneider, a Paris-based independent consultant on nuclear energy, opened his 14-minute speech in the video by saying “greetings to Taipei” from a (...)
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
).