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Under Construction
2
Operating
13
Long-Term Outage
0
Closed
32
Number of Reactors
(as of September 2021)
37.6
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of September 2021)
14.5%
Decrease
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2020)
WNISR
in the Media –
4 October 2021
Deutsche Welle (Germany)
Nuclear power: Downward trend ahead of climate summit
Ten years since the Fukushima disaster, expensive nuclear energy plants are being shut down across the world as renewable power prices plummet. by Stuart Braun Published 28 September 2021 In the face of soaring gas prices in the
UK
, some incumbent conservative politicians are pushing nuclear energy as the savior. The argument goes that the energy source has low carbon emissions, and that new smaller reactors can more quickly be brought online. Rolls-Royce stands ready to build 16 new (...)
WNISR
Essential News –
10 June 2021
WNISR
EDF
Energy Closes Two Reactors in the United Kingdom—More to Come
WNISR
, 10 June 2021 On 7 June 2021,
EDF
Energy, to the surprise of many, announced that it would not seek to restart the two reactors at its Dungeness B nuclear power plant in Kent, United Kingdom. The Dungeness B nuclear power plant will remain closed. — Photo
EDF
The station had not operated since September 2018—and was thus considered by
WNISR
in Long-Term Outage (
LTO
)—while
EDF
was “managing a range of unique, significant and ongoing technical challenges”. As recently as October 2020,
EDF
(...)
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
).
WNISR
Essential News –
29 March 2012
RWE
and E.
ON
Ditch Nuclear Plans in the
UK
RWE
and E.
ON
Ditch Nuclear Plans in the
UK
Uploaded 29 March 2012 The German utilities E.
ON
and
RWE
have announced today that they will not proceed with plans to build 6,000
MW
of new nuclear power plants in the
UK
. The utilities now look for investors interested to take over the 50/50 joint adventure Horizon Nuclear Power. E.
ON
states in a press release that it will “focus on other strategic projects that will deliver earlier benefit for customers and the company”. Accordingly, “
UK
(...)
WNISR
Essential News –
29 February 2012
Final Curtain for Oldest
UK
Reactor
The
UK
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (
NDA
) announced the closure of the world’s oldest nuclear power plant, that stopped generating electricity at 11h00 on 29 February 2012 after 44 years of operation. Since 1967 it has generated 137.5 TWh of power. This leaves only two reactors at the Wylfa plant as First Generation
MAGNOX
plants operating in the
UK
. Both were commissioned in (...)