In earlier years they were shut down for longer periods with closer to a 55 percent in service rate. Today nuclear power plants worldwide operate on average about 80 percent of the time. Nuclear target map is an interesting and unique program unlike other nuclear target maps because it lets you pick the target and what size nuclear device that the area you chose is hit with and then shows the likely.
A few days ago i was doing research on nuclear war world war 3 and potential nuclear targets and safe distances from those target sites when i came across the nukemap. Includes russia china france south korea. List of all nuclear reactors in operation across the world including country of origin name type of reactor capacity date connected to the grid.
Nuclearplanet is maintained and updated by the swiss nuclear forum in. It is available in english french and german. Nuclearplanet was developed by the swiss nuclear forum and is hosted on their website.
World nuclear map nuclearplanet nuclearplanet is an interactive world map showing all civil nuclear power plants and radioactive waste repositories with key information on each site. In the 25 years after chernobyl nuclear construction declined while global demand for electricity more than doubled. The last of chernobyl s four reactors continued to operate for another 14 years until 2000.
The second major disaster to hit the world s nuclear industry was chernobyl which took place 30 years ago in april 1986. Reactors under constuction operational and permanently shut down. Nuclear power plants around the world.