2,608 billion kWh of electricity were generated by 439 nuclear power plants worldwide, with a total capacity of 372 GWe in 2007. The top 3 producers were USA 807 billion kWh, France 420 billion kWh, and Japan 267 billion kWh (see Nuclear power worldwide).
World civil nuclear outlook | ||||
Nuclear Electricity Generation 2007 |
Reactors Operable May 2008 |
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| billion kWh | Number | MWe | ||
| Argentina | 6.7 | 2 | 935 | |
| Armenia | 2.35 | 1 | 376 | |
| Bangladesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Belarus | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Belgium | 46 | 7 | 5728 | |
| Brazil | 11.7 | 2 | 1901 | |
| Bulgaria | 13.7 | 2 | 1906 | |
| Canada | 88.2 | 18 | 12652 | |
| China | 59.3 | 11 | 8587 | |
| Czech Republic | 24.6 | 6 | 3472 | |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Finland | 22.5 | 4 | 2696 | |
| France | 420.1 | 59 | 63473 | |
| Germany | 133.2 | 17 | 20339 | |
| Hungary | 13.9 | 4 | 1826 | |
| India | 15.8 | 17 | 3779 | |
| Indonesia | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Iran | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Israel | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Japan | 267 | 55 | 47577 | |
| Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Korea DPR (North) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Korea RO (South) | 136.6 | 20 | 17533 | |
| Lithuania | 9.1 | 1 | 1185 | |
| Mexico | 9.95 | 2 | 1310 | |
| Netherlands | 4 | 1 | 485 | |
| Pakistan | 2.3 | 2 | 400 | |
| Romania | 7.1 | 2 | 1310 | |
| Russia | 148 | 31 | 21743 | |
| Slovakia | 14.2 | 5 | 2064 | |
| Slovenia | 5.4 | 1 | 696 | |
| South Africa | 12.6 | 2 | 1842 | |
| Spain | 52.7 | 8 | 7442 | |
| Sweden | 64.3 | 10 | 9016 | |
| Switzerland | 26.5 | 5 | 3220 | |
| Taiwan | 38.9 | 6 | 4884 | |
| Thailand | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Turkey | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ukraine | 87.2 | 15 | 13168 | |
| United Kingdom | 57.5 | 19 | 11035 | |
| USA | 806.6 | 104 | 99049 | |
| Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| WORLD ¹ | 2,608 | 439 | 371,989 | |
| ¹ The world total includes 6 reactors operating on Taiwan with a combined capacity of 4884 MWe, which generated a total of 39 billion kWh in 2007 (accounting for 19.3% of Taiwan's total electricity generation). Taiwan has two reactors under construction with a combined capacity of 2600 MWe. | ||||
Sources: see Sources of data
