Nuclear power by country - wikipedia Nuclear power by country The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant in France. France produces around three quarters of its electricity by nuclear power. The Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel 's coalition announced on 30 May 2011, that Germany 's 14 nuclear power stations will be shut down by 2022, in a policy reversal following Japan 's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Nuclear power plants currently operate in 31 countries. Most are in Europe, North America, East Asia and South Asia. The United States is the largest producer of nuclear power, while France has the largest share of electricity generated by nuclear power. In 2010, before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, it was reported that an average of about 10 nuclear reactors were expected to become operational per year, although according to the World Nuclear Association, of the 17 civilian reactors planned to become operational between 2007 and 2009, only five actually came on stream. Global nuclear electricity generation in 2012 was at its lowest level since 1999. China has the fastest growing nuclear power program with 28 new reactors under construction, and a considerable number of new reactors are also being built in India, Russia and South Korea. At the same time, at least 100 older and smaller reactors will `` most probably be closed over the next 10 -- 15 years ''. Some countries operated nuclear reactors in the past but have currently no operating nuclear plants. Among them, Italy closed all of its nuclear stations by 1990 and nuclear power has since been declared illegal in a referendum. Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Armenia are planning to reintroduce nuclear power in the future. Several countries are currently operating nuclear power plants but are planning a nuclear power phase - out. These are Belgium, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. Other countries, like Netherlands, Sweden, and Taiwan are also considering a phase - out. Austria never started to use its first nuclear plant that was completely built. Due to financial, political and technical reasons, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, and Poland never completed the construction of their first nuclear plants, and Australia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ghana, Ireland, Kuwait, Oman, Peru, Singapore, and Venezuela never built their planned first nuclear plants. Contents 1 Overview 2 Nuclear power policy by country 3 History of deployment 4 List of nuclear power reactors by country 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Overview Nations based on nuclear output as a percentage of national power output. Of the 31 countries in which nuclear power plants operate, only France, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belgium, and Hungary use them as the source for a majority of the country 's electricity supply. Other countries have significant amounts of nuclear power generation capacity. According to the World Nuclear Association, a nuclear power advocacy group, as of 2012 over 45 countries were giving `` serious consideration '' to introducing a nuclear power capability, with Belarus, Iran, Jordan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam at the forefront. China, India and South Korea are pursuing ambitious expansions of their nuclear power capacities, with China aiming to increase capacity to at least 80 GW by 2020, 200 GW by 2030 and 400 GW by 2050. South Korea plans to expand its nuclear capacity from 20.7 GW in 2012 to 27.3 GW in 2020 and to 43 GW by 2030. India aims to have 14.6 GW nuclear power generation capacity by 2020 and 63 GW by 2032 and to have 25 % of all electricity supplied by nuclear power by 2050. Nuclear power plants in Europe Nuclear power by country in 2016 Country Number of operated reactors Capacity Net - total ( MW ) Generated electricity ( GWh ) Share of total electricity use Argentina 1632 7677.36 5.6 % Armenia 375 2194.85 31.4 % Belgium 7 5913 41430.45 51.7 % Brazil 1884 14970.46 2.9 % Bulgaria 1926 15083.45 35 % Canada 19 13554 95650.19 15.6 % China 36 31384 197829.04 3.6 % Czech Republic 6 3930 22729.87 29.4 % Finland 2764 22280.1 33.7 % France 58 63130 386452.88 72.3 % Germany 8 10799 80069.61 13.1 % Hungary 1889 15183.01 51.3 % India 22 6240 35006.83 3.4 % Iran 915 5923.97 2.1 % Japan 43 40290 17537.14 2.2 % Korea, Republic of 25 23077 154306.65 30.3 % Mexico 1552 10272.29 6.2 % Netherlands 482 3749.81 3.4 % Pakistan 1005 5438.9 4.4 % Romania 1306 10388.20 17.1 % Russia 36 26528 184054.09 17.1 % Slovakia 1814 13733.35 54.1 % Slovenia 688 5431.27 35.2 % South Africa 1860 15209.47 6.6 % Spain 7 7121 56102.44 21.4 % Sweden 10 9740 60647.40 40.0 % Switzerland 5 3333 20303.12 34.4 % Taiwan 6 5052 30461.09 13.7 % Ukraine 15 13107 76077.79 52.3 % United Kingdom 15 8918 65148.98 20.4 % United States 100 100351 804872.94 19.7 % World total 451 392,553 MW 2,476 TWh 10.9 % Nuclear power policy by country Global status of nuclear deployment as of 2017 ( source : see file description ) Operating reactors, building new reactors Operating reactors, planning new build No reactors, building new reactors No reactors, planning new build Operating reactors, stable Operating reactors, considering phase - out Civil nuclear power is illegal No reactors Main article : Nuclear energy policy by country This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. ( March 2018 ) History of deployment Timeline of commissioned and decommissioned nuclear capacity since the 1950s. Positive numbers show the commissioned capacity for each year ; negative numbers show the decommissioned capacity for each year. See also : History of nuclear power The first nuclear reactor, known as Chicago Pile - 1, was built in the United States and achieved criticality on December 2, 1942. The reactor was part of the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb. The United Kingdom, Canada, and the USSR proceeded to research and develop nuclear industries over the course of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The first light bulbs ever lit by electricity generated by nuclear power at EBR - 1 at Argonne National Laboratory - West, December 20, 1951. Electricity was generated for the first time by a nuclear reactor on December 20, 1951, at the EBR - I experimental station near Arco, Idaho, which initially produced about 100 kW. On June 27, 1954, the USSR 's Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant became the world 's first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for a power grid, and produced around 5 megawatts of electric power. Later in 1954, Lewis Strauss, then chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission ( U.S. AEC, forerunner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the United States Department of Energy ) spoke of electricity in the future being `` too cheap to meter ''. Strauss was very likely referring to hydrogen fusion -- which was secretly being developed as part of Project Sherwood at the time -- but Strauss 's statement was interpreted as a promise of very cheap energy from nuclear fission. The U.S. AEC itself had issued far more realistic testimony regarding nuclear fission to the U.S. Congress only months before, projecting that `` costs can be brought down... ( to )... about the same as the cost of electricity from conventional sources... '' List of nuclear power reactors by country Only the commercial reactors registered with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( as of October 2017 ) are listed below. Country Operating Under construction References and notes Argentina Armenia 0 Replacement Belarus 0 Under construction Belgium 7 0 Brazil Bulgaria 0 Four reactors were shut down in 2004 and 2007. Belene Nuclear Power Plant construction was officially terminated in March 2012. Canada 19 0 China 38 19 58 GWe by 2020 Czech Republic 6 0 Egypt 0 0 4 reactors expected to be completed by 2024. Finland As of 2012, TVO is planning a new reactor to be built and operational by 2020. France 58 First French EPR under construction at Flamanville Germany 8 0 Phase - out in place by 2022. Hungary 0 Paks2 ( 2 * 1200MW ) signed with Rosatom in 2014. India 22 6 Six reactors with a cumulative capacity of 4300 MW are under construction as of 2016. Iran 0 The first reactor of Bushehr Plant has power generation capacity of 915 MW Jordan 0 0 2 reactors expected to be built by 2021 Japan 42 After Fukushima, Japan shut down all of its 54 nuclear reactors, 12 of them permanently ; 42 remain in operational condition, of which 24 have requested permission to restart, and 5 reactors have been restarted. Mexico 0 Netherlands 0 Pakistan 5 KANUUP - II and KANUUP - III are under construction and are expected to be completed by 2020. Romania 0 20 January 2011, GDF Suez, Iberdrola and RWE pulled out of the project. Russia 35 7 7 new reactors expected to be completed by 2020 Saudi Arabia 0 0 16 nuclear power reactors over the next 25 years Slovakia Slovenia 0 South Africa 0 South Africa will be building a further 9600 MW, 6 - 8 reactors, by 2030 Kuwait 0 0 4 Reactors planned Too be built by 2022 South Korea 24 Spain 7 0 Stable Sweden 8 0 Switzerland 5 0 Phase - out in place, first decommissioning 2029. Taiwan 6 All nuclear power plants planned to be phased - out by 2025, however, the viability of this is highly uncertain. Turkey 0 Ukraine 15 2 new reactors by 2018. United Arab Emirates 0 4 reactors expected to be operational 2018 -- 2020 United Kingdom 15 0 United States 99 World 448 57 References : See also List of nuclear reactors List of nuclear power stations Nuclear energy policy by country Nuclear power accidents by country Uranium reserves World Nuclear Industry Status Report Nuclear industry in Canada Category : Nuclear power by country References ^ Jump up to : `` World Nuclear Power Reactors & Uranium Requirements ''. World Nuclear Association. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010. Jump up ^ Annika Breidthardt ( 30 May 2011 ). `` German government wants nuclear exit by 2022 at latest ''. Reuters. ^ Jump up to : Michael Dittmar. Taking stock of nuclear renaissance that never was Sydney Morning Herald, 18 August 2010. 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Question: where is nuclear energy used most in the world
Answer: United States; United States; France