World-Wide Reactor Information

Sources

There are four (4) excellent sources of information about reactors around the world:

• The Milan Copic Nuclear Training Centre of Institut Jozef Stefan has recently produced an excellent database, entitled NPPs of the World, which provides information on 557 nuclear plants. This database requires a browser with Javascript capability.
• Argonne National Laboratory International Nuclear Safety Center's (INSC) Database. There are currently about 440 operating reactors in the world. If you want to find where reactors are around the world, you can either use an imagemap (an example shown below) or a search table. Excerpts are provided below.
• International Atomic Energy Agency, an agency of the United Nations, provides (1) the central international forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field, and (2) the international inspectorate for the application of nuclear safeguards and verification measures covering civilian nuclear programs.
• Energy Information Administration, a section of the US Department of Energy, has produced a number of on-line reports evaluating energy use and its impact in the US and globally. These reports include lists of reactors in operation and delayed, deferred, or under construction.

INSC World Imagemap

The imagemap below links to more detailed maps and information about specific reactors. You can select a specific point where a reactor is located or continents or major portions of continents.

INSC Database Search Table

With the search table, you can select Country - Plant Operational Status - Plant Type .

There are 8 Plant Operational Status options-

• Planned - Canceled - Ordered - Under Construction
• Suspended - Operable - Permanently shutdown - Decommissioned

There are 13 Plant Type options - ALL plus each of the ones listed in the table below.

Once you make your selection, you can go to specific country or site to find more detailed information on location, reactor manufacturer and related data.

International Atomic Energy Agency

The International Atomic Energy Agency Power Reactor Information Service has the following information available from its homepage:

• Status of nuclear plants worldwide
• Reactors Under Construction
• Number of Reactors in Operation Worldwide
• Nuclear Share of Electricity Generation
• Number of Reactors in Operation by Age
• World Energy Availability Factors by Year

In addition, you can select a country and find the reactors located in the country with address, phone number, net and gross generating capacity, startup date, owner, operator, operating experience history

Energy Information Administration

The Energy Information Administration has produced a number of very useful reports covering US and international total and nuclear energy use.

• Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report 1997
• Worldwide list of reactors operating (by country) at end of 1996
• Worldwide list of reactors, planned, deferred, or  under construction at end of 1996
• International Energy Outlook Reports (with projections through 2020) - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996
• Annual Energy Outlook Reports (with projections through 2020) - 1999 - 1998
• Energy Information Administration - (Environmental - Forecasts - Nuclear - Electricity - Fuel Overview - Coal - Natural Gas - Renewables)
• Data on nuclear power generation, and nuclear Fuel cycle, decommissioning, nuclear capacity, nuclear reactors, spent fuel, uranium mining and milling, uranium prices, uranium processing, uranium reserves, uranium shipments, production, enrichment, marketing, imports, exports, inventories.

Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

• US Nuclear Plant Owners and Operating Companies
• NEI Industry Data Digest 
• Nuclear Energy Data Monthly

Use NEI's U.S. Nuclear Plants State-by-State Interactive Map to find what reactors are located near you and how these contribute to the state's electrical grid. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

• NRC Nuclear Plant Information Assistant
• NRC Information Digest - Volume 12
• Daily Plant Status, Event Reports, Historical Status and Event Reports

See the US reactors page to use the NEI imagemap or to obtain more extensive information about US reactors.