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Highest Number of Reactor Closures in a Decade

 2021 in nuclear numbers—Six reactor startups, ten less than planned at
the beginning of the year. Eight closures plus two closure announcements.
Ten construction starts. Three reactors in Long-Term Outage (LTO)
restarted, two closed. As of 1 January 2022, 412 reactors in operation, 25
in LTO, and 55 under construction.

The Year 2021 saw the largest number of
nuclear reactor closures in a decade, since 2011, when the Fukushima
disaster began. Three of the six remaining units were closed in Germany, as
well as three closures announced in the UK including two reactors that had
not generated any power since 2018 (and thus enter WNISR closure-statistics
that year). Four additional units were closed, one each in Pakistan,
Russia, Taiwan and the USA.

 WNISR 15th Feb 2022

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/Highest-Number-of-Reactor-Closures-in-a-Decade.html

February 22, 2022 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, business and costs