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<strong>atw</strong> Vol. 63 (<strong>2018</strong>) | Issue 5 ı May<br />
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Operating results 2017 – Part I*<br />
REPORT<br />
In 2017 the German nuclear power plants generated<br />
84.63 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity gross.<br />
The Gundremmingen B nuclear power plant ceased operation<br />
on 31 December 2017 due to the revision of the<br />
German Atomic Energy Act in the political aftermath of<br />
the accidents in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. Eight nuclear<br />
power plants with an electric gross output of<br />
11,357 MWe were in operation on 31 December 2017.<br />
Three power plants in operation until 31 December<br />
2017 achieved operating results with a gross production<br />
greater than 10 billion kilowatt hours and two power<br />
plants even produced more than 11 billion kilowatt hours.<br />
German nuclear power plants achieved two of the<br />
world’s ten best production results in 2017 (“Top Ten”). At<br />
the end of 2017, 449 reactor units were in operation in 31<br />
countries worldwide and 56 were under construction in 16<br />
countries. The share of nuclear power in world electricity<br />
production was around 11 %. German nuclear power<br />
plants have been occupying top spots in electricity production<br />
for decades thus providing an impressive demonstration<br />
of their efficiency, availability and reliability.<br />
The Shin Kori 3 nuclear power plant in the Republic Korea<br />
(capacity: 1,475 MWe gross) achieved the world record<br />
in electricity production in 2017 in its first year of commercial<br />
operation with 12,921,000 MWh. The German nuclear<br />
power plants Isar 2 (KKI 2, 11,523,513 MWh) and Emsland<br />
(KKE, 11,323,704 MWh) took the ninth and tenth place.<br />
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nuclear power plants will be published in a further issue of <strong>atw</strong>.<br />
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