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Operating
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14.4
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(as of January 2026)
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WNISR
Essential News –
14 November 2019
Iran: Construction Restart of Busheer-2
Iran: Construction Restart of Bushehr-2
WNISR
, 14 November 2019 Basemat concrete for the reactor building has been poured, usually representing the official construction start, at the Bushehr unit 2 reactor as of 10 November 2019, according to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (
AEOI
). Excavation for that foundation of the unit started on 31 October 2017. However, originally, construction had started in 1976. The site also hosts the Bushehr-1 reactor, where construction had (…)
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
).