BBC_Knowledge_Asia_Edition_-_May_2016_

USA: 798.6

Nuclear electricity generation World

in billion kilowatt hours in 2014

THE WORLD’S NUCLEAR

REACTORS AS OF JANUARY 2016

Operational

Combined operational,

proposed and under

construction

India

Iran

China

Indonesia

Pakistan

Saudi Arabia UAE

Kazakhstan

Armenia

Turkey

IsraelJordan

Egypt

Ukraine

Bulgaria

UK

Romania

Hungary

France

Spain

Canada

USA

France: 418

Russia: 169.1

S Korea: 149.2

China: 123.8

Canada: 98.6

Germany: 91.8

Ukraine: 83.1

Sweden: 62.3UK: 57.9

Spain: 54.9

India: 33.2Belgium: 32.1Czech Republic: 28.6

Switzerland: 26.5Finland: 22.6

Bulgaria: 15South Africa: 14.8Hungary: 14.8Brazil: 14.5Slovakia: 14.4Romania: 10.8

Mexico: 9.3Slovenia: 6.1Argentina: 5.3Pakistan: 4.6Netherlands: 3.9

Iran: 3.7Armenia: 2.3

Mexico

Brazil

Argentina

Chile

Slovakia

Belarus

Lithuania

Finland

Sweden

Poland

Slovenia

Switzerland

Netherlands

Germany

Belgium Czech Rep

Russia

Thailand

Bangladesh S Korea

N Korea

Japan*

* Following the Fukushima accident,

Japan’s nuclear power stations were

progressively closed

Vietnam

Malaysia

South Africa

21

2

3

4

2

2

5

5

2

2

7

6

2

3

1

10

24 43

58

36

230

91

28

15

9

8

58

99

126

60

15

19

24

28

35

30

87

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