atw Vol. 63 (2018) | Issue 3 ı March
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STATISTICS
(Manuskript Erstfassung:
2012,
im November 2017
überarbeitet)
Organisationsversagen immer wieder
in Einzelfällen ausreichen, auch die
ausgeklügeltsten ingenieurmäßigen
Sicherheitsvorkehrungen unwirksam
zu machen. Da bisher wegen der hohen
Anfangskosten Kernkraftwerke
bevorzugt in reichen und technisch
fortschrittlichen Ländern gehäuft
betrieben wurden, hat man dort auch
alle bezahlbaren Sicherheitsvorkehrungen
getroffen. Jetzt bauen
aber vorwiegend ärmere Länder neue
Kernkraftwerke, womit dann gerade
dort das Eintreten schwerer Störfälle
denkbar ist. Wegen der aber auch
dort wachsenden ausgeprägten
Risiko aversion wären zur Aufrechterhaltung
der nuklearen Option
voll abgesicherte, wenn auch teure
Abhilfen gerechtfertigt. Es dürfte sich
daher lohnen, System mindestens zu
planen und zu erproben, die unter
wirklich allen Umständen eine
Dispersion ausschließen.
Authors
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stoll
Hanau, Deutschland
Nuclear Power Plants:
2017 atw Compact Statistics
Editorial
At the end of the last year 2017 (key date: 31 December 2017), nuclear power plants were operating in 31 countries
worldwide (cf. Table 1). In total, 448 nuclear power plants were operating on the key date. This means that the
number decreased by 2 units compared to the previous year’s number on 31 December 2016 (450, which means the
highest number of units since the first start of an commercial nuclear power plant in 1956) due to first criticalities on the
one hand and shut-downs on the other. The gross power output of these nuclear power plant units amounted to
around 420 GWe*, the net power output was approximately 396 GWe. This means that the available gross capacity
was about 1 GW, i.e. -0,25 % and the net capacity about 1 GW below the previous year’s values of about 421 GWe gross
and 397 GWe net.
Three (3) nuclear power plants started (nuclear)
operation 1 in two countries in 2017. These units reached
initial criticality, were synchronized with the grid and
started commercial operation for the first time in 2017
(cf. Tab. 1): China: Fuqing 4 (1089 MW, PWR, CGO),
Tianwan 3 (1126 MW, PWR, CGO), Pakistan: Chasnupp-4
(340 MW, PWR, CGO). One unit was synchronized with
the grid and started commercial operation for the first
time in 2017: China: Yangjiang 4 (1086 MW, GO).
For the third time since the accidents in Fukushima
( Japan) two nuclear power units, Takahama 3 (870 MW,
PWR) and Takahama 4 (870 MW, PWR) resumed operation
in 2017 in Japan after a longer shut-down.
Five nuclear power plant units were definitively
per manently shut-down worldwide in 2017. In Germany
the unit Gundremmingen B (1344 MW) was shut-down
after 33 years of successful operation. In Japan the prototype
fast breeder reactor Monju (280 MW) was shut down
22 years after first criticality. In the Republic of Korea the
PWR Kori 1 (608 MW) was permanently shut down. The
BWR Oskarshamn 1 (492 MW) was shut down in Sweden.
The Spanish nuclear power plant Santa Maria de Garona
(466 MW) was permanently shut down after five years of
lay-up operation due to an applied for but not approved
prolonged operation license.
Three new projects started with the first concrete and
further build activities. In Bangladesh one new build project
started with Rooppur 1(1200 MW), India started the
new build of the third unit at Kudankulam (1000 MW) and
in the Republic of Korea one additional project started
with Shin-Kori 5 ( 1455 MW).
In total 56 reactors are under construction worldwide
in 15 countries. The total gross capacity of this projects is
about 61 GW*, the net capacity 58 GW, in other words the
number was lower (2) compared to the previous year number
due to the three operation starts, three new build projects
and the suspension of one project with two reactors.
Compared with the millennium change 1999/2000 this
means that the number of projects under construction has
risen, when 30 nuclear power plants were under construction
worldwide.
Two projects in the USA were stopped. South Carolina
Public Service Authority (minority partner of the project,
40 %) decided to stop the new build project Virgil C. Summer
2 and 3. Construction of two advanced pressurized
water reactors (APR 1000, 1080 MW) by Westinghouse
started in 2013. In March 2017, Westinghouse Electric
Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because of $9
billion of losses from its two U.S. nuclear construction projects.
SCANA (share in project: 60 %) considered its options
for the project, and ultimately decided to abandon
the project in July 2017 after the decision of its minority
partner.
Active construction projects (numbers in brackets)
listed are: Argentina (1), Bangladesh (1), Belarus (2), Brazil
(1), China (18), Finland (1), France (1), India (7), Japan
(2), Republic of Korea (4), Pakistan (2), Russia (7),
Slovak Republic (2), Taiwan (2), the USA (2) and the United
Arab Emirates (4).
In addition, there are about 125 nuclear power plant
units in 25 countries worldwide that are in an advanced
planning stage, others are in the pre-planning phase
( status: 31 December 2017).
Statistics
Nuclear Power Plants: 2017 atw Compact Statistics
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