Civil Power

APS-1 at Obninsk was the worlds first nuclear power plant to deliver electricity to a grid, a 5 MWe graphite moderated channel rea...

The worlds first full scale commercial nuclear station, four Magnox gas cooled reactors opened by Queen Elizabeth II in October 19...

First full scale commercial nuclear plant in the United States, a 60 MW pressurized water reactor on the Ohio River near Pittsburg...

Unit 2 suffered a partial meltdown in March 1979 after a stuck valve drained coolant, the most serious US reactor accident, with n...

Four RBMK-1000 reactors north of Kiev. Unit 4 exploded during a safety test in April 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history, ...

Six boiling water reactors on the Pacific coast of Fukushima prefecture. The March 2011 tsunami flooded units 1 to 4, three cores ...

Three pressurized water reactors totaling about 3,900 MW in the Arizona desert west of Phoenix, the largest generator of electrici...

Eight CANDU heavy water reactors on Lake Huron in Ontario with about 6,550 MW capacity, the largest operating nuclear station in t...

Two PWRs on the coast near San Luis Obispo, 2,240 MW supplying about 9 percent of California power. Closure planned for 2025 was r...

Units 3 and 4 at Waynesboro Georgia were the first new US reactors ordered after Three Mile Island, Westinghouse AP1000 passive sa...

Three reactors 25 miles north of New York City that supplied roughly a quarter of the city and lower Hudson Valley power. Shut in ...

An 800 MW pressurized water reactor on Lake Michigan, shut in 2022 when its fuel purchase deal lapsed. Bought for restart, it is s...

A planned 350 MW liquid metal fast breeder demonstration reactor in Tennessee, cancelled in 1983 after years of design change and ...

Two half built pressurized water reactors on the Tennessee River that TVA suspended in 1988 and never finished. Construction licen...

The only pressurized water reactor in Britain, a 1,200 MW Westinghouse design with a distinctive spherical containment on the Suff...

Two EPR reactors under construction in Somerset, the first new British nuclear station in a generation and the most expensive powe...

Twin advanced gas cooled reactors that supplied the grid from 1976 until 2022 and were among the most productive stations in Briti...

The first inland British nuclear station, twin Magnox reactors beside an artificial lake in Snowdonia, Wales, running from 1965 to...

The last and largest Magnox station, on Anglesey in Wales, operating from 1971 to 2012. The follow on Wylfa Newydd project with Hi...

Home of the Russian fast reactor program in the Urals. The BN-600 has run since 1980, among the longest serving fast reactors anyw...

The cradle of the VVER pressurized water line, hosting six successive design generations on one site since 1964. Units 6 and 7, VV...

The worlds first operational floating nuclear power plant, a barge with two KLT-40S icebreaker reactors totaling 70 MW plus distri...

The first commercial nuclear plant in the Arab world, four South Korean APR-1400 reactors at Ruwais on the Gulf coast with 5,600 M...

Site of the first reactor designed and built by China, a 300 MW indigenous PWR grid connected in 1991. The complex in Zhejiang pro...

First large commercial nuclear station in China, two French M310 units 50 km from Hong Kong, grid connected in 1994. It historical...

Two 1,750 MW EPR reactors in Guangdong, the first units of the French European Pressurized Reactor design to enter commercial serv...

The Shidaowan station in Shandong hosts the high temperature gas cooled pebble bed demonstration, two 250 MW thermal modules feedi...

The largest nuclear station on Earth by nameplate, seven boiling water reactors totaling 8,200 MW on the Sea of Japan coast in Nii...

Two pressurized water reactors in Kagoshima, Kyushu. In August 2015 Sendai 1 became the first Japanese reactor restarted after the...

Three boiling water reactors closest to the 2011 epicenter that survived the great tsunami behind their seawall while the town beh...

An island site on the Baltic coast with two BWRs and Olkiluoto 3, a 1,600 MW EPR finally delivered in 2023 after 18 years, lifting...

Two 1,300 MW PWRs on the Normandy coast. Flamanville 3, the French EPR prototype, finally loaded fuel in 2024 after 17 years of co...

Six 900 MW units on the North Sea near Dunkirk, the largest nuclear plant in Western Europe and the first French station to deploy...

The first civilian nuclear power plant in the Middle East, a VVER-1000 completed by Russia on foundations Germany poured in the 19...

Two CANDU-6 heavy water reactors on the Danube, the only Romanian nuclear plant, supplying about a fifth of national electricity, ...

Four VVER-440 reactors on the Danube supplying about a third of Hungarian electricity. Construction of two Russian supplied VVER-1...

Angra 1 and 2, pressurized water reactors on a coastal spit between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, together about 1,900 MW. Angra 3...

Atucha 1 near Lima in Buenos Aires province was the first commercial power reactor in Latin America, a German designed pressure ve...

A completed 700 MW boiling water reactor on the Danube that was never fueled after a razor thin 1978 referendum barred nuclear pow...

A 700 MW Westinghouse PWR on the Sava river, jointly owned by Slovenia and Croatia and the only nuclear plant of the former Yugosl...

Four reactors on the Kattegat coast south of Gothenburg. Units 1 and 2 closed in 2019 and 2020 under the phase out policy later ab...

Four VVER-440 reactors in Moravia supplying about a third of Czech electricity, running at some of the best capacity factors in th...

The largest nuclear station in India, Russian VVER-1000 units on the Tamil Nadu coast. Unit 1 began in 2013 after fierce local pro...

Six VVER-1000 reactors on the Kakhovka reservoir at Enerhodar, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe at about 5,700 MW. Russia...

At Sosnovy Bor on the Gulf of Finland west of Saint Petersburg, the first plant to run RBMK-1000 reactors, starting in 1973. The o...

A sodium cooled fast breeder demonstration reactor on Lake Erie near Monroe, Michigan. In October 1966 a loose zirconium plate blo...

A 1,200 MW sodium cooled fast breeder at Creys-Malville on the Rhone, the largest breeder reactor ever built. It ran at full power...

A 280 MW prototype fast breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui prefecture. A sodium leak and fire in December 1995, followed by an atte...

A sodium cooled fast breeder built at Kalkar on the Rhine. It was essentially finished in 1985 but never received an operating per...

Four pressurized water reactors on the Scheldt beside the port of Antwerp, their cooling towers looming over the near deserted vil...

The only nuclear power station in Africa, two French built 900 MW class pressurized water reactors on the Atlantic coast north of ...

The first commercial nuclear power station in India, north of Mumbai, where two US built General Electric boiling water reactors b...

Two RBMK-1500 reactors at Visaginas, the most powerful channel type reactors ever built and of the same family as Chernobyl. Lithu...

The oldest operating French nuclear plant until 2020, two 900 MW pressurized water reactors on the Grand Canal d Alsace near the G...

A coastal plant between Los Angeles and San Diego whose domed containments became a landmark beside the beach. In 2012 new replace...

The only nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, on the Danube. Its four older VVER-440 units were closed between 2002 and 2006 as part o...