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World Nuclear Industry Status Report

August 26, 2023

The World Nuclear Industry Status Report is a yearly report on the nuclear power industry. It is produced by Mycle Schneider, an anti-nuclear activist and a founding member of WISE-Paris, which he directed from 1983 to 2003.[1][2]

World Nuclear Industry Status Report
2013 report
AuthorMycle Schneider
Antony Froggatt
Julie Hazemann
Tadahiro Katsuta
Amory B. Lovins
Christian von Hirschhausen
SubjectNuclear power industry
GenreNon-fiction

2019 Report Edit

The 2019 report reached the conclusion that 'Stabilizing the climate is urgent, nuclear power is slow. [Nuclear power] meets no technical or operational need that these low-carbon competitors [wind, solar and other renewable energy] cannot meet better, cheaper, and faster. Even sustaining economically distressed reactors saves less carbon per dollar and per year than reinvesting its avoidable operating cost (let alone its avoidable new subsidies) into cheaper efficiency and renewables.'[3] The report also reached the conclusion that Small Modular Reactors are unlikely to play any significant role in the future energy landscape.

2017 Data-visualization tool Edit

In January an interactive visualization on nuclear power construction was launched. This contains information on the 754 reactors that are or have been under-construction since 1951. The Global Nuclear Power Database is hosted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.[4]

2016 report Edit

As of the middle of 2016, 31 countries were operating nuclear reactors for energy purposes. Nuclear power plants generated 2,441 net terawatt-hours (TWh or billion kilowatt-hours) of electricity in 2015, a 1.3 percent increase.[5]

2015 report Edit

Globally, the nuclear industry's situation continued to deteriorate in 2015, except in China. Eight out of the ten nuclear power reactor startups in 2015 were in China.[6]

2013 report Edit

Written by Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt with contributions of four other experts from Japan, the UK and France, says that the nuclear industry was struggling with grave problems prior to the Fukushima accident, but that the impact of the accident has become increasingly visible. Global electricity generation from nuclear plants dropped by a historic 7 percent in 2012, adding to the record drop of 4 percent in 2011.

The 427 operating reactors worldwide, as of 1 July 2013, are 17 lower than the peak in 2002. The nuclear share in the world's power generation declined steadily from a historic peak of 17 percent in 1993 to about 10 percent in 2012.[7] The report details a range of restart scenarios for Japan's nuclear reactor fleet which, as of September 2013,[8] were all shutdown. Nuclear power's share of global commercial primary energy production plunged to 4.5 percent, a level last seen in 1984.

Besides an extensive update on nuclear economics, the report also includes an assessment of the major challenges at the Fukushima nuclear site,[9] in particular the highly contaminated water on site. This water contained in the basement of reactors and in storage tanks contains 2.5 times the total amount of caesium-137 released at the Chernobyl accident.

The report says that China, Germany and Japan, three of the world's four largest economies, as well as India,[10] now generate more power from renewables than from nuclear power. For the first time in 2012 China and India generated more power from wind alone than from nuclear plants, while in China solar electricity generation grew by 400 percent in one year.

2012 report Edit

According to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2012, written by Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt, nuclear power accounted for 11 percent of worldwide electricity generation. World atomic power production dropped by a record 4.3 percent in 2011 as the global financial crisis and the Fukushima disaster in Japan prompted plant shutdowns and slowed construction of new sites. Seven reactors began operating in 2011 and 19 were shuttered.[11]

The report shows that following the Fukushima crisis in March 2011, Germany, Switzerland and Taiwan announced their withdrawal from nuclear power. Output was further restricted as nations suspended construction plans amid safety concerns and economic stagnation, forcing utilities to study extending lifetimes, which raises considerable safety issues.[11]

At least five countries, including Egypt and Kuwait, have suspended plans to build their first nuclear reactors. In the U.K., major companies like RWE, EON, and SSE have all abandoned new-build proposals in 2011/12, while companies in Japan and Bulgaria have suspended construction. The Fukushima disaster also created certification and licensing delays.[11]

2010–11 report Edit

The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010-2011 is authored by Mycle Schneider, Antony Froggatt, and Steve Thomas and published by the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute. The foreword is written by Amory Lovins.[12]

According to the report, the international nuclear industry has been unable to stop the slow decline of nuclear energy. The world's reactor fleet is aging quickly and not enough new units are coming online. As of April 1, 2011, there were 437 nuclear reactors operating in the world, which was seven fewer than in 2002.[12] The Olkiluoto plant has had particular problems:

The flagship EPR project at Olkiluoto in Finland, managed by the largest nuclear builder in the world, AREVA NP, has turned into a financial fiasco. The project is four years behind schedule and at least 90 percent over budget, reaching a total cost estimate of €5.7 billion ($8.3 billion) or close to €3,500 ($5,000) per kilowatt.[12]

The report says that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is exacerbating many of the problems that nuclear energy is facing. There is "no obvious sign that the international nuclear industry could eventually turn empirically evident downward trend into a promising future", and the Fukushima nuclear disaster is likely to accelerate the decline. With long lead times of 10 years and more, it will be difficult to maintain, let alone increase, the number of operating nuclear power plants over the next 20 years. Moreover, says the report, it is clear that nuclear power development cannot keep up with the pace of renewable energy commercialization.[12] For the first time, in 2010 total installed nuclear power capacity in the world (375 gigawatts) fell behind aggregate installed capacity (381 GW) of three specific renewables — wind turbines (193 GW), biomass and waste-to-energy plants (65 GW), and solar power (43 GW).[12]

2009 report Edit

The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 presents quantitative and qualitative information on the nuclear power plants in operation, under construction and in planning phases throughout the world. A detailed analyses of the economic performance of past and current nuclear projects is also given. The report was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety.[13][14][15]

2008 report Edit

The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2008 focused on the difficulties facing nuclear power throughout the world, with particular reference to Western Europe and Asia.[16]

2007 report Edit

The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 was commissioned by the Greens-EFA Group in the European Parliament.[17][18]

Earlier reports Edit

The first World Nuclear Industry Status Report was issued in 1992 in a joint publication with WISE-Paris, Greenpeace International and the World Watch Institute, Washington. The second report in 2004 was commissioned by the Greens-EFA Group in the European Parliament.

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ Mycle Schneider. The Citizens Science Concept – The Role of Independent and Counter-Expertise[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Mycle Schneider". www.mycleschneider.com.
  3. ^ Ihédate; ihedate (2019-09-27). "The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2019 (HTML)". World Nuclear Industry Status Report. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  4. ^ UPDATE: Global Nuclear Power Database, Thursday 23 February 2017.
  5. ^ UPDATE2: World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2016, Thursday 23 February 2017.
  6. ^ UPDATE1: World Nuclear Industry Status as of 1 January 2016: Mind the China Effect, Monday 4 January 2016.
  7. ^ Stay informed today & every day (2013-07-25). "Daily chart: Critical reactions". The Economist. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  8. ^ "Japan Nuclear Free, Last Operating Reactor Shut Down - World Nuclear Industry Status Report". Worldnuclearreport.org. 2013-09-16. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  9. ^ Sheldrick, Aaron (2013-08-14). "Insight: After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan's nuclear clean-up". Reuters. from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  10. ^ "Nuclear growth in India has been slow: report". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on January 24, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  11. ^ a b c Kari Lundgren (July 6, 2012). . Businessweek. Archived from the original on July 8, 2012.
  12. ^ a b c d e Mycle Schneider; Antony Froggatt & Steve Thomas (2011). (PDF). Worldwatch Institute. pp. 7–8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  13. ^ Mycle Schneider, Steve Thomas, Antony Froggatt, Doug Koplow (August 2009). The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009, p. 5.
  14. ^ Nuclear decline set to continue, says report 2009-09-03 at the Wayback Machine Nuclear Engineering International, 27 August 2009.
  15. ^ "The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009" (PDF).
  16. ^ "2008 world nuclear industry status report: Western Europe". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 2008-09-19. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  17. ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-08-30.
  18. ^ "FindArticles.com | CBSi". findarticles.com. Retrieved 2021-10-20.

Further reading Edit

  • Mycle Schneider & Antony Froggatt (September–October 2012). "2011-2012 world nuclear industry status report" (PDF). Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 68 (5): 8–22. Bibcode:2012BuAtS..68e...8S. doi:10.1177/0096340212459126. S2CID 145136334.
  • Mycle Schneider; Antony Froggatt & Steve Thomas (July 2011). "2010-2011 world nuclear industry status report" (PDF). Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 67 (4): 60–77. Bibcode:2011BuAtS..67d..60S. doi:10.1177/0096340211413539. S2CID 210853643.
  • Mycle Schneider, Steve Thomas, Antony Froggatt, and Doug Koplow. (November 2009, Vol. 65 No. 6). 2009 World Nuclear Industry Status Report Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, pp. 1–19.
  • International Atomic Energy Agency (2012). "IAEA Updates Its Projections for Nuclear Power in 2030" IAEA Updates Its Projections for Nuclear Power in 2030
  • Worldwatch Institute (2011). The End of Nuclear 2011-04-30 at the Wayback Machine.
  • Mycle Schneider (9 September 2011). . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Archived from the original on 6 January 2013.

External links Edit

  • The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports website

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The World Nuclear Industry Status Report is a yearly report on the nuclear power industry It is produced by Mycle Schneider an anti nuclear activist and a founding member of WISE Paris which he directed from 1983 to 2003 1 2 World Nuclear Industry Status Report2013 reportAuthorMycle SchneiderAntony Froggatt Julie Hazemann Tadahiro Katsuta Amory B Lovins Christian von HirschhausenSubjectNuclear power industryGenreNon fiction Contents 1 2019 Report 2 2017 Data visualization tool 3 2016 report 4 2015 report 5 2013 report 6 2012 report 7 2010 11 report 8 2009 report 9 2008 report 10 2007 report 11 Earlier reports 12 See also 13 References 14 Further reading 15 External links2019 Report EditThe 2019 report reached the conclusion that Stabilizing the climate is urgent nuclear power is slow Nuclear power meets no technical or operational need that these low carbon competitors wind solar and other renewable energy cannot meet better cheaper and faster Even sustaining economically distressed reactors saves less carbon per dollar and per year than reinvesting its avoidable operating cost let alone its avoidable new subsidies into cheaper efficiency and renewables 3 The report also reached the conclusion that Small Modular Reactors are unlikely to play any significant role in the future energy landscape 2017 Data visualization tool EditIn January an interactive visualization on nuclear power construction was launched This contains information on the 754 reactors that are or have been under construction since 1951 The Global Nuclear Power Database is hosted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 4 2016 report EditAs of the middle of 2016 31 countries were operating nuclear reactors for energy purposes Nuclear power plants generated 2 441 net terawatt hours TWh or billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2015 a 1 3 percent increase 5 2015 report EditGlobally the nuclear industry s situation continued to deteriorate in 2015 except in China Eight out of the ten nuclear power reactor startups in 2015 were in China 6 2013 report EditWritten by Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt with contributions of four other experts from Japan the UK and France says that the nuclear industry was struggling with grave problems prior to the Fukushima accident but that the impact of the accident has become increasingly visible Global electricity generation from nuclear plants dropped by a historic 7 percent in 2012 adding to the record drop of 4 percent in 2011 The 427 operating reactors worldwide as of 1 July 2013 are 17 lower than the peak in 2002 The nuclear share in the world s power generation declined steadily from a historic peak of 17 percent in 1993 to about 10 percent in 2012 7 The report details a range of restart scenarios for Japan s nuclear reactor fleet which as of September 2013 8 were all shutdown Nuclear power s share of global commercial primary energy production plunged to 4 5 percent a level last seen in 1984 Besides an extensive update on nuclear economics the report also includes an assessment of the major challenges at the Fukushima nuclear site 9 in particular the highly contaminated water on site This water contained in the basement of reactors and in storage tanks contains 2 5 times the total amount of caesium 137 released at the Chernobyl accident The report says that China Germany and Japan three of the world s four largest economies as well as India 10 now generate more power from renewables than from nuclear power For the first time in 2012 China and India generated more power from wind alone than from nuclear plants while in China solar electricity generation grew by 400 percent in one year 2012 report EditAccording to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2012 written by Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt nuclear power accounted for 11 percent of worldwide electricity generation World atomic power production dropped by a record 4 3 percent in 2011 as the global financial crisis and the Fukushima disaster in Japan prompted plant shutdowns and slowed construction of new sites Seven reactors began operating in 2011 and 19 were shuttered 11 The report shows that following the Fukushima crisis in March 2011 Germany Switzerland and Taiwan announced their withdrawal from nuclear power Output was further restricted as nations suspended construction plans amid safety concerns and economic stagnation forcing utilities to study extending lifetimes which raises considerable safety issues 11 At least five countries including Egypt and Kuwait have suspended plans to build their first nuclear reactors In the U K major companies like RWE EON and SSE have all abandoned new build proposals in 2011 12 while companies in Japan and Bulgaria have suspended construction The Fukushima disaster also created certification and licensing delays 11 2010 11 report EditThe World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010 2011 is authored by Mycle Schneider Antony Froggatt and Steve Thomas and published by the Washington based Worldwatch Institute The foreword is written by Amory Lovins 12 According to the report the international nuclear industry has been unable to stop the slow decline of nuclear energy The world s reactor fleet is aging quickly and not enough new units are coming online As of April 1 2011 there were 437 nuclear reactors operating in the world which was seven fewer than in 2002 12 The Olkiluoto plant has had particular problems The flagship EPR project at Olkiluoto in Finland managed by the largest nuclear builder in the world AREVA NP has turned into a financial fiasco The project is four years behind schedule and at least 90 percent over budget reaching a total cost estimate of 5 7 billion 8 3 billion or close to 3 500 5 000 per kilowatt 12 The report says that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is exacerbating many of the problems that nuclear energy is facing There is no obvious sign that the international nuclear industry could eventually turn empirically evident downward trend into a promising future and the Fukushima nuclear disaster is likely to accelerate the decline With long lead times of 10 years and more it will be difficult to maintain let alone increase the number of operating nuclear power plants over the next 20 years Moreover says the report it is clear that nuclear power development cannot keep up with the pace of renewable energy commercialization 12 For the first time in 2010 total installed nuclear power capacity in the world 375 gigawatts fell behind aggregate installed capacity 381 GW of three specific renewables wind turbines 193 GW biomass and waste to energy plants 65 GW and solar power 43 GW 12 2009 report EditThe World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 presents quantitative and qualitative information on the nuclear power plants in operation under construction and in planning phases throughout the world A detailed analyses of the economic performance of past and current nuclear projects is also given The report was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Environment Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety 13 14 15 2008 report EditThe World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2008 focused on the difficulties facing nuclear power throughout the world with particular reference to Western Europe and Asia 16 2007 report EditThe World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 was commissioned by the Greens EFA Group in the European Parliament 17 18 Earlier reports EditThe first World Nuclear Industry Status Report was issued in 1992 in a joint publication with WISE Paris Greenpeace International and the World Watch Institute Washington The second report in 2004 was commissioned by the Greens EFA Group in the European Parliament See also EditInternational Atomic Energy Agency Nuclear energy policy Nuclear renaissance Nuclear power in France Nuclear power in ChinaReferences Edit Mycle Schneider The Citizens Science Concept The Role of Independent and Counter Expertise permanent dead link Mycle Schneider www mycleschneider com Ihedate ihedate 2019 09 27 The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2019 HTML World Nuclear Industry Status Report Retrieved 2021 10 20 UPDATE Global Nuclear Power Database Thursday 23 February 2017 UPDATE2 World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2016 Thursday 23 February 2017 UPDATE1 World Nuclear Industry Status as of 1 January 2016 Mind the China Effect Monday 4 January 2016 Stay informed today amp every day 2013 07 25 Daily chart Critical reactions The Economist Retrieved 2014 01 24 Japan Nuclear Free Last Operating Reactor Shut Down World Nuclear Industry Status Report Worldnuclearreport org 2013 09 16 Retrieved 2014 01 24 Sheldrick Aaron 2013 08 14 Insight After disaster the deadliest part of Japan s nuclear clean up Reuters Archived from the original on 2014 02 01 Retrieved 2014 01 24 Nuclear growth in India has been slow report Hindustan Times Archived from the original on January 24 2014 Retrieved 2014 01 24 a b c Kari Lundgren July 6 2012 World Atomic Output Falls by Record in Fukushima s Aftermath Businessweek Archived from the original on July 8 2012 a b c d e Mycle Schneider Antony Froggatt amp Steve Thomas 2011 World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010 2011 Nuclear Power in a Post Fukushima World PDF Worldwatch Institute pp 7 8 Archived from the original PDF on 2012 01 30 Retrieved 2011 05 07 Mycle Schneider Steve Thomas Antony Froggatt Doug Koplow August 2009 The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 p 5 Nuclear decline set to continue says report Archived 2009 09 03 at the Wayback Machine Nuclear Engineering International 27 August 2009 The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 PDF 2008 world nuclear industry status report Western Europe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2008 09 19 Retrieved 2014 01 24 The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 Archived from the original on 2012 03 31 Retrieved 2011 08 30 FindArticles com CBSi findarticles com Retrieved 2021 10 20 Further reading EditMycle Schneider amp Antony Froggatt September October 2012 2011 2012 world nuclear industry status report PDF Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 68 5 8 22 Bibcode 2012BuAtS 68e 8S doi 10 1177 0096340212459126 S2CID 145136334 Mycle Schneider Antony Froggatt amp Steve Thomas July 2011 2010 2011 world nuclear industry status report PDF Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67 4 60 77 Bibcode 2011BuAtS 67d 60S doi 10 1177 0096340211413539 S2CID 210853643 Mycle Schneider Steve Thomas Antony Froggatt and Doug Koplow November 2009 Vol 65 No 6 2009 World Nuclear Industry Status Report Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists pp 1 19 International Atomic Energy Agency 2012 IAEA Updates Its Projections for Nuclear Power in 2030 IAEA Updates Its Projections for Nuclear Power in 2030 Worldwatch Institute 2011 The End of Nuclear Archived 2011 04 30 at the Wayback Machine Mycle Schneider 9 September 2011 Fukushima crisis Can Japan be at the forefront of an authentic paradigm shift Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Archived from the original on 6 January 2013 External links EditThe World Nuclear Industry Status Reports website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title World Nuclear Industry Status Report amp oldid 1169070874, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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