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Description	Nuclear power station.svg The map shows the commercial nuclear power plants in the world. Research reactors are not considered nuclear power plants.
Date	22 February 2009(2009-02-22)
Source	Own work
Author	Ichwan Palongengi, Krzysztof Kosiński
Permission (Reusing this image)	See below.

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English (en)

Countries with nuclear power plants.

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

[edit] Sources

The data for this map comes from the World Nuclear Association, particularly the following documents:

World Nuclear Power Reactors & Uranium Requirements. World Nuclear Association (2009-12). Retrieved on 2009-12-11.
Plans for New Nuclear Reactors. World Nuclear Association (2009-09). Retrieved on 2009-12-11.
Emerging Nuclear Energy Countries. World Nuclear Association (2009-12-04). Retrieved on 2009-12-11.
Country briefings

Additional sources:

Turkey abandons nuclear bid. World Nuclear News (2009-12-09). Retrieved on 2009-12-11.

[edit] Specific notes on status

See also: en:Nuclear power by country

Country	Plants/situation
Austria	Construction on the Zwentendorf Nuclear plant finished in 1978, however a referendum was passed that did not allow startup. Nuclear power is illegal.
Belarus	Announced in October 2007 that it will build its first nuclear reactor. Construction will commence in 2008 and will finish in 4 to 8 years. BBC source.
China	Over 100 new reactors planned
Finland	Constructing the first European Pressurized Reactor facility at Olkiluoto, older 2 reactor commercial facilities in Olkiluoto and Loviisa remain in use
Iran	Building reactor at Bushehr
Italy	Phased out nuclear power after Chernobyl; no reactors operating right now, but considering 10 new reactors
New Zealand	The country declares itself a "nuclear-free zone", but this only bans entry of nuclear-powered ships into its territorial waters, and does not relate to nuclear power
North Korea	Several commercial nuclear reactors started, but none completed or operated.
Philippines	1 plant, the en:Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, was mothballed; never fueled.
Poland	A nuclear power plant in Żarnowiec was planned in the early 1990's, however, protests of the society have cancelled the project. The current government, however, is currently planning buliding a nuclear power plant (one of the considered locations is again) basing on French reactor technology. It is going to start producing energy in the 2020's.
South Korea	SK has many units of CANDU and PWR design at 4 different locations. Currently, there are multiple units at Shin Wolsong and Shin-Kori under construction, of which two are planned to come online in 2010. See en:Nuclear power in South Korea
Turkey	Planned up to 3600MW of capacity, but the tender was cancelled in December 2009. See [1]
United Kingdom	The government has had pressure to both increase nuclear power generation as well as stop expansion. The Scottish government has turned down new plans and has mostly rejected new nuclear generation. England has a very complicated political environment for new nuclear generation, see en:Nuclear power in the United Kingdom. Currently 10 reactors are planned to replace the aging AGRs.
United States of America	See en:Nuclear power in the United States.

[edit] Licensing

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:19, 11 December 2009		940×477 (1.68 MB)	Tweenk (talk \| contribs)	(More logical color scheme)
	22:01, 11 December 2009		940×477 (1.65 MB)	Tweenk (talk \| contribs)	(Update status for Turkey ([http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN_Turkey_abandons_nuclear_bid_0912091.html]), Yemen, Oman [http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf102.html]. Correct status for Kazakhstan, Italy (no operating reactors), New Zealand (nuclear pow)
	22:36, 3 December 2009		940×477 (1.65 MB)	Tweenk (talk \| contribs)	(Update status for North Korea and Philippines. Those countries' commercial reactors were never put into operation.)
	21:21, 3 December 2009		940×477 (1.65 MB)	Tweenk (talk \| contribs)	(Update status for Germany, Netherlands and Austria. Austria never operated any reactors, and nuclear power is illegal. Germany has announced plans to cancel the phase-out recently. Belgium postponed the phase-out, but it remains effective for now.)
	20:17, 27 July 2009		940×477 (1.66 MB)	NuclearVacuum (talk \| contribs)	(Standardized image with other maps)
	15:48, 16 July 2009		940×415 (1.57 MB)	TastyCakes (talk \| contribs)	(Changed Italy's colour as per English Wikipedia talk and [http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP_Italy_rejoins_the_nuclear_family_1007091.html news].)
	20:58, 6 June 2009		940×415 (1.57 MB)	Ichwan Palongengi (talk \| contribs)	(Added more information and fixed some more.)
	01:12, 23 February 2009		940×415 (1.57 MB)	Ichwan Palongengi (talk \| contribs)	({{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Information:<br>}} \|Source=Own work by uploader \|Author=Ichwan Palongengi \|Date=2009-02-22 \|Permission= \|other_versions= }} <!--{{ImageUpload\|full}}-->)