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United Arab Emirates
Operating
4
Number of Reactors
(as of August 2026)
4.3
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of August 2026)
21.2%
Stable
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2025)
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 (…)
WNISR
Essential News –
21 August 2020
Barakah,
UAE
: Grid Connection of First Commercial Reactor in the Arab World
WNISR
21 August 2020 Barakah-1, the first commercial nuclear reactor in the Arab world In a significant milestone for the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates’ (
UAE
) first commercial nuclear reactor, Barakah-1, was connected to the grid on 19 August 2020. It is the first commercial nuclear reactor to begin operations in the Arab world and the first in the Middle East since Iran’s Busheer-1 started up on 3 September 2011. Completion of construction of Barakah-2 was announced on 14 July (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
22 November 2018 [fr]
Les Echos (France)
Nucléaire : la France accède par la petite porte à Abu Dhabi
EDF
a signé un contrat-cadre de services pour Barakah, la centrale nucléaire du pays. Le sud-coréen Kepco avait remporté le marché de construction en 2009. Les Echos
VERONIQUE
LE
BILLON
Le 22/11/2018 à 17:33Mis à jour à 17:58 Le contrat de construction de la centrale nucléaire de Barakah aux Emirats arabes unis avait échappé à la France et traumatisé la filière tricolore à la fin 2009 . Neuf ans plus tard, la France revient avec
EDF
, par la petite porte, en annonçant la signature d’un (…)
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
).