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nuclear power station A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces elec ...
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In service

This table lists all currently operational power stations. Some of these may have reactors under construction, but only current net capacity is listed. Capacity of permanently shut-down reactors is not included, but capacity of long-term shut-down reactors (today mainly in Japan) is included.


Under construction

This table lists stations under construction stations without any reactor in service. Planned connection column indicates the connection of the first reactor, not thus whole capacity. {, class="sortable wikitable" , - ! Power station !! No. of
units !! Net capacity
under construction
( MW) !! Construction
start !! Planned
connection !! Country !!
Location In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...
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El Dabaa El Dabaa ( ar, الضبعة  ) is a town in the Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. It lies from Cairo on the north coast and is served by the El Alamain International Airport. It is famous for the Russian technology nuclear power plant being const ...
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Hinkley Point C Hinkley Point C nuclear power station (HPC) is a two-unit, 3,200MWe EPR nuclear power station under construction in Somerset, England. The site was one of eight announced by the British government in 2010, and in November 2012 a nuclear site ...
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Ōma is a town located in Aomori, Japan. In 2020, the town had an estimated population of 5,155, and a population density of ,in 2,497 households. The total area of the town is . Geography Ōma occupies the northwestern coastline of Shimokita Penin ...
, , 1 , , {{nts, 1325 , , 2010 , , 2028 , , {{Flag, Japan , , {{Coord, 41, 30, 35, N, 140, 54, 37, E, name=Ōma Nuclear Power Plant , - , Rooppur , , 2 , , {{nts, 2160 , , 2017 , , 2023 , , {{Flag, Bangladesh , , {{Coord, 24, 4, 0, N, 89, 2, 50, E, name=Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant , - , San’ao{{Cite web, title=Zhejiang San'ao Nuclear Power Plant - NS Energy, url=https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/zhejiang-sanao-nuclear-power-plant/, access-date=2022-01-11, language=en-US , 2 , 2,234 , 2020 , 2026 , {{Flag, China , {{WikidataCoord, Q109377736, display= , - , Xudabao , 2 , {{nts, 2400 , 2021 , 2028 , {{Flag, China , {{WikidataCoord, Q28223974, display= , - , Vogtle (expansion) , 2 , {{nts, 2234 , 2012 , 2023 , {{Flag, United States , {{WikidataCoord, Q28223974, display= , - ,
Zhangzhou Zhangzhou (), alternately romanized as Changchow, is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, China. The prefecture around the city proper comprises the southeast corner of the province, facing the Taiwan Strait and surrounding the prefec ...
, 2 , {{nts, 2252 , 2019 , 2024 , {{Flag, China , {{WikidataCoord, Q85817090, display= , -


Permanently shut down

This table lists stations that are permanently shut down. Listed on 1985, 2005-2022 ongoing. {, class="sortable wikitable" , - ! Power station !! Past capacity ( MW) !! Country !!
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Barsebäck Barsebäck () is a locality situated in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 524 inhabitants in 2010. It lies about 4 km east of the harbour village Barsebäckshamn. It is known for the now closed Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant ...
, , {{nts, 1200 , , {{Flag, Sweden , , {{Coord, 55, 44, 40, N, 12, 55, 15, E, name=Barsebäck Nuclear Power Station , - ,
Biblis Biblis is a municipality in the Bergstraße district in southern Hessen, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Rhine rift west of the Odenwald between Darmstadt to the north and Mannheim to the south; it also lies north of ...
, , {{nts, 2407 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 49, 42, 36, N, 08, 24, 55, E, name=Biblis Nuclear Power Station , - ,
Brokdorf Brokdorf is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is located on the bank of the Elbe river, approx. 20 km east before the river flows into the North Sea. As of December 2019, the total population ...
, , {{nts, 1410 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 53, 51, 03, N, 09, 20, 41, E, name=Brokdorf Nuclear Power Station , - , Caorso, , 860, , {{flag, Italy, , {{WikidataCoord, Q1739370, display= , - , Chin Shan{{Cite web, title=Nuclear Power Reactors in Taiwan, publisher=International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), url=https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails.aspx?current=TW, access-date=2018-10-10, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010174317/https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails.aspx?current=TW, archive-date=2018-10-10, url-status=live , , {{nts, 1208 , , {{Flag, Taiwan , , {{Coord, 25, 17, 10, N, 121, 35, 15, E, name=Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant , - ,
Chernobyl Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about no ...
, , {{nts, 3515 , , {{Flag, Ukraine , , {{Coord, 51, 23, 22, N, 30, 05, 57, E, name=Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant , - ,
Dungeness Dungeness () is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness spans Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, the hamlet ...
, {{nts, 1540 , {{Flag, United Kingdom , {{Coord, 50, 54, 50, N, 00, 57, 50, E, name=Dungeness Nuclear Power Station , - ,
Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and ...
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Fessenheim Fessenheim (; gsw-FR, Fassene) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is known for: * its hydroelectric power plant on the Grand Canal d'Alsace (built 1953–1956, inaugurated 1957); * the Fessenhei ...
, , {{nts, 1760 , , {{Flag, France , , {{Coord, 47, 54, 11, N, 07, 33, 47, E, name=Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant , - , Fort Calhoun , , {{nts, 478.6 , , {{Flag, United States , , {{coord, 41, 31, 13, N, 96, 4, 38, W, name=Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station , - ,
Fukushima Daiichi The is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a site in the towns of Ōkuma and Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The plant suffered major damage from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. Th ...
, , {{nts, 4546 , , {{Flag, Japan , , {{Coord, 37, 25, 17, N, 141, 01, 57, E, name=Fukushima I Nuclear Power Station , - , Fukushima Daini , , {{nts, 4400 , , {{Flag, Japan , , {{Coord, 37, 19, 10, N, 141, 01, 16, E, name=Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant , - ,
Garigliano The Garigliano () is a river in central Italy. It forms at the confluence of the rivers Gari (also known as the Rapido) and Liri. Garigliano is actually a deformation of "Gari-Lirano" (which in Italian means something like "Gari from the Liri"). ...
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Grafenrheinfeld Grafenrheinfeld is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Schweinfurt (district), Schweinfurt in Bavaria, Germany. The municipality is home to the Nuclear reactor technology, nuclear power station, Grafenrheinfeld, which open ...
, , {{nts, 1275 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 49, 59, 02, N, 10, 11, 05, E, name=Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Station , - ,
Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...
, , {{nts, 2040 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 54, 08, 26, N, 13, 39, 52, E, name=Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant , - ,
Grohnde Emmerthal is a municipality in the Hameln-Pyrmont district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Weser, approximatively 6 km south of Hameln. Its seat is in the village Kirchohsen. In 1973, the Emmerthal was formed by mer ...
, , {{nts, 1360 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 52, 02, 07, N, 09, 24, 48, E, name=Grohnde Nuclear Power Station , - ,
Gundremmingen Gundremmingen is a municipality in the district of Günzburg (district), Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany. It is well known for the Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant. Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Station Gundremmingen is the location of the nuclea ...
, , {{nts, 2809 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 48, 30, 53, N, 10, 24, 08, E, name=Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Station , - , Hinkley Point A nuclear power station, Hinkley Point A , , {{nts, 470 , {{Flag, United Kingdom , {{WikidataCoord, Q1765322, display= , - , Hinkley Point B nuclear power station, Hinkley Point B , , {{nts, 870 , {{Flag, United Kingdom , {{coord, 51.209, -3.128, region:GB_type:landmark , - , Hunterston B nuclear power station, Hunterston B , {{nts, 985 , {{Flag, United Kingdom , {{coord, 55.722, -4.890, type:landmark , - , Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Ignalina , , {{nts, 2370 , , {{Flag, Lithuania , , {{Coord, 55, 36, 16, N, 26, 33, 36, E, name=Ignalina Nuclear Power Station , - , Indian Point Energy Center, Indian Point , , {{nts, 2285 , , {{Flag, United States , , {{Coord, 41, 16, 11, N, 73, 57, 08, W, name=Indian Point Energy Center , - , Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant, Krümmel , , {{nts, 1346 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 53, 24, 36, N, 10, 24, 32, E, name=Krummel Nuclear Power Station , - , Latina Nuclear Power Plant, Latina, , 153, , {{flag, Italy, , {{WikidataCoord, Q1739429, display= , - , Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant, Mülheim-Kärlich , , {{nts, 1219 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 50, 24, 29, N, 07, 29, 24, E, name=Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant , - , Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, Palisades , , {{nts, 805 , , {{Flag, United States , , {{Coord, 42, 19, 22, N, 86, 18, 52, W, name=Palisades Nuclear Generating Station , - , Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Philippsburg , , {{nts, 2292 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 49, 15, 09, N, 08, 26, 11, E, name=Philippsburg Nuclear Power Station , - , Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Pilgrim , , {{nts, 677 , , {{Flag, United States , , {{coord, 41, 56.7, N, 70, 34.7, W, name=Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station , - , Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, Three Mile Island , , {{nts, 1685 , , {{Flag, United States , , {{Coord, 40, 09, 14, N, 76, 43, 29, W, name=Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station , - , San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, San Onofre , , {{nts, 2586 , , {{Flag, United States , , {{Coord, 33, 22, 08, N, 117, 33, 18, W, name=San Onofre Nuclear Power Station , - , Superphénix , , {{nts, 1200 , , {{Flag, France , , {{Coord, 45, 45, 30, N, 05, 28, 20, E, name=Superphénix , - , Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, Trojan , , {{nts, 1095 , , {{Flag, United States , , {{Coord, 46, 02, 18, N, 122, 53, 06, W, name=Trojan Nuclear Power Plant , - , Unterweser Nuclear Power Plant, Unterweser , , {{nts, 1345 , , {{Flag, Germany , , {{Coord, 53, 25, 40, N, 08, 28, 49, E, name=Unterweser Nuclear Power Station , - , Zion Nuclear Power Station, Zion , , {{nts, 2080 , , {{Flag, United States , , {{Coord, 42, 26, 47, N, 87, 48, 11, W, name=Zion Nuclear Power Station


Gallery of power plants

File:Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant 14-Aug-2019.jpg, Aerial view of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant File:Kori Nuclear Power Plant (8505820845).jpg, The Kori Nuclear Power Plant File:Bruce-Nuclear-Szmurlo.jpg, The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, the world's largest fully operational nuclear power facility File:Kernkraftwerk Saporischschja.JPG, The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant File:Centrale nucléaire de Gravelines.JPG, The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station File:Nuclear Power Plant Cattenom.jpg, The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant File:Hamaoka NPP 201005.jpg, The Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant File:Ohi Nuclear Power Plant (02010077).jpg, The Ōi Nuclear Power Plant File:Pickering Nuclear Plant.jpg, The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station File:Eurodif.JPG, The Tricastin Nuclear Power Center File:Chinon nuclear power plant.JPG, The Chinon Nuclear Power Plant File:Centrale-nucleaire-Bugey.jpg, The Bugey Nuclear Power Plant File:Ringhals.JPG, The Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant File:Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 and 2.jpg, The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant File:Browns ferry NPP.jpg, The Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant File:CANDU at Qinshan.jpg, The Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant File:Centrale nogent.jpeg, The Nogent Nuclear Power Plant File:Gelände des Kernkraftwerk Isar (KKI).jpg, The Isar Nuclear Power Plant File:Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant 2010-1.jpg, The Koeberg Nuclear Power Station


See also

* List of nuclear reactors — shows individual reactors and dates * List of boiling water reactors * List of small modular reactor designs * Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents * Nuclear power by country


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External links


PRIS (Power Reactor Information System) database
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