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Nuclear power plants worldwide - annual connections 1954-2017
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Nuclear power plants worldwide - annual connections 1954-2017
Number of new nuclear power plants connected to the grid worldwide from 1954 to 2017
The statistic represents the annual number of new nuclear power reactors that were connected to the grid globally between 1954 and 2017. In 2017, four new nuclear power plants were connected to the grid.
Number of new nuclear power plants connected to the grid worldwide from 1954 to 2017
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The statistic represents the annual number of new nuclear power reactors that were connected to the grid globally between 1954 and 2017. In 2017, four new nuclear power plants were connected to the grid.
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- 1954 to 2017
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- 1954 to 2017
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- Number of permanent nuclear reactor shutdowns worldwide as of February 2019, by country
- Average number of safety system failures at U.S. nuclear reactors from 2000 to 2015
- Average length of refueling outages for U.S. nuclear plants from 1996 to 2018 (in days)
- Leading U.S. states based on payments to the nuclear waste fund as of December 31, 2016 (in million U.S. dollars)
- Global uranium mine production from 2002 to 2017 (in metric tons)
- Uranium production worldwide from 2011 to 2017, by mining method (in metric tons)
- Production of the leading uranium mines worldwide in 2017 (in metric tons)
- Leading countries based on uranium production in 2016 (in 1,000 metric tons)*
- Leading countries worldwide based on uranium resources in 2016 (in 1,000 metric tons)
- Projected electricity generation worldwide from 2015 to 2050, by energy source (in trillion kilowatt hours)*
- Projected installed nuclear power generation capacity worldwide from 2015 to 2050 (in gigawatts)
- Number of under construction nuclear reactors worldwide as of February 2019, by country
- Electric capacity of nuclear reactors under construction worldwide as of February 2019, by country (in megawatts)
- Number of permanent nuclear reactor shutdowns worldwide as of September 2017, by reason*
- Net electrical power capacity of nuclear reactors in France from 1985 to 2015 (in megawatts electric)
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- Capacity of nuclear reactor final shutdowns worldwide in 2017 (in electric megawatt hours)
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- Spent nuclear fuel inventory in selected countries at the end of 2007 (in tons of heavy metal)
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