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United Kingdom
Under Construction
2
Operating
15
Closed
30
Number of Reactors
(as of April 2020)
36.1
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of April 2020)
17.7%
Decrease
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2018)
68.4
Annual Load Factor
(2018)
WNISR
Essential News –
18 March 2020
WNISR
Strangely Belated Announcement of Hinkley Point C-2 Construction Start
Strangely Belated Announcement of Hinkley Point C-2 Construction Start
EDF
Energy continues to distort definitions of construction time
WNISR
, 18 March 2020 On 10 December 2019, formal construction began on the second European Pressurized Water Reactor (
EPR
) at Hinkley Point C (
HPC
-2) in the U.K., according to an email by
EDF
Energy spokesperson Gordon Bell, dated 16 March 2020. According to an internationally accepted definition by the International Atomic Energy Agency (
IAEA
) and applied (...)
WNISR
in the Media –
18 January 2019
Reuters (
UK
)
Hitachi halts
UK
nuclear project as energy supply crunch looms
Reuters, 17 January 2018
UK
govt says will pursue alternative funding models Hitachi
CEO
denies Brexit affected decision Horizon keeps option open to resume development
CGN
to bring forward plans for Bradwell site (Adds details on jobs) By Nina Chestney and Makiko Yamazaki
LONDON
/
TOKYO
, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Japan’s Hitachi Ltd put a $28 billion nuclear power project in Britain on hold on Thursday, dealing a blow to the country’s plans for the replacement of ageing plants. Hitachi’s
UK
unit (...)
WNISR
Essential News –
29 December 2018
The Oddly Discreet Construction Start of Hinkley Point C
WNISR
, 29 December 2018
EDF
Energy announced on 11 December 2018 the completion of the first part of the concrete pouring for the base slab for unit 1 of the Hinkley Point C (
HPC
) nuclear power plant. Four more pours of concrete will be required before the so-called “raft” that supports the reactor building will be complete, work is expected to be concluded in 2019. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (
IAEA
) definition, the official “construction start”, is “the date when first (...)
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
).