Reinforced with 5 000 tonnes of welsh steel the base has been under construction by the uk french joint venture of bouygues laing o. The final 9 000m of concrete beat the uk record set by the shard in london. Electricite de france sa edf has completed a record breaking concrete pour to lay the base slab known as j zero at the uk s hinkley point nuclear power station in somerset.
Cattenom nuclear power plant consists of four pwrs rated at 1 362mw each. The net capacity of the plant is 5 200mw which is similar to that of paluel npp the seventh largest nuclear power plant in the world. The power plant is owned and operated by edf.
The 5 448mw gross cattenom nuclear power plant is located in cattenom france. Both ningde and yangjiang power stations play an important role in china s domestic nuclear industry as 80 of those stations are made by local companies. Ningde nuclear power plant is among china s six biggest nuclear plants with a net capacity of more than 3000 mw there are total 10 operational units throughout the nation.
Those power stations that are smaller than 1 000 mw and those that are only at a planning or proposal stage may be found in regional lists at the end of the page or in the list of nuclear reactors the list is based on figures from pris power reactor information system maintained by. The following page lists all nuclear power stations that are larger than 1 000 mw in current net capacity. The uk has 15 operational nuclear reactors at seven locations 14 advanced gas cooled reactors agr and one pressurised water reactor pwr as well as nuclear reprocessing plants at sellafield and the tails management facility tmf operated by urenco in.
Nuclear power in the united kingdom generates around 19 of the country s electricity as of 2020 projected to rise to a third by 2035. Non renewable power stations are those that run on coal fuel oils nuclear natural gas oil shale and peat while renewable power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass geothermal heat hydro solar energy solar heat tides waves. This article lists the largest power stations in the world the ten overall and the five of each type in terms of current installed electrical capacity.
