Nuclear Power Plants: 2009 atw Compact Statistics

At the turn of 2009/2010, nuclear power plants were available for energy supply in 30 countries of the world. A total of 437 nuclear power plants, which is one plant less than at the 2008/2009 turn, were in operation with an aggregate gross power of approx. 391 GWe and an aggregate net power, respectively, of 371 GWe. The available gross power of nuclear power plants did not changed notice- abely from 2008 to the end of 2009.
In total 2 nuclear geenrating units were commissioned in 2009. One NPP started operation in India and one in Japan.
Three nuclear generating units in Japan (2) und Lithuania (1) were decomissioned in 2009.
52 nuclear generating units, i.e. 10 plants more than at the end of 2008, with an aggregate gross power of approx. 51 GWe, were under construction in 14 countries end of 2009. New or continued projects are notified from (in brackets: number of new projects): China (+9), Russia (1), and South Korea (1).
Some 84 new nuclear power plants are in the concrete project design, planning and licensing phases worldwide; on some of them, contracts have already been awarded. Another units are in their preliminary project phases.