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Table 3.12 Number of nuclear power reactors by nation (11 nations
with the largest number of reactors ranked by installed capacity)
as per March of 2017 (Nuclear News [32]) and before the Japan
earthquake and tsunami disaster (March of 2011)
(Nuclear News [33])
No. of units (PWRs/ Installed capacity,
BWRs) (GW el )
Changes in
As of March Before As of Before
number of
2017 March March March
reactors from
2011 2017 2011
No Nation March 2011
1 USA 99 (65/34) 104 101 103 # Decreased by 5
reactors
2 France 58 (58/–) 58 63 63 No changes
3 Japan a 42 (19/23) 54 42 47 # Decreased by
12 reactors
b
4 China 37 (35/–/2 ) 13 32 10 " Increased
by 24 reactors
d
c
5 Russia 35 (18/–/15 /2 ) 32 26 23 " Increased by 3
reactors
b
6 South 25 (21/–/4 ) 20 23 18 " Increased by 5
Korea reactors
b
7 Canada 19 (–/–/19 ) 22 13 15 # Decreased by 3
reactors
8 Ukraine 15 (15/–) 15 13 13 No changes
9 Germany 8 (6/2) 17 11 20 # Decreased by 9
reactors
10 Sweden 10 (7/3) 10 10 9 No changes
e
11 UK 15 (1/–/14 ) 19 9 10 # Decreased by 4
reactors
In total 362 364 342 331 # Decreased by 2
reactors (however,
installed capacity
increased
by 10.7GW el )

Data for all countries with nuclear power reactors are in Table 3.13.
Arrows mean decrease or increase in a number of reactors.
a
Currently, i.e., in October of 2017, the vast majority of nuclear power reactors are not in operation. However, there are
plans to put them into operation in the nearest future.
b
PHWRs.
c
No of LGRs.
d
LMFBRs.
e
AGRs.