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Number of Reactors
(as of January 2024)
36.6
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of January 2024)
14.2%
Stable
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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 (...)
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 1971.
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