TOP 10 Largest Nuclear power plants

Paluel Nuclear Power Plant is located in Normandy, France. It is 40 km from Dieppe, located in Paluel, the town of Département Seine-Maritime. It is the second largest nuclear power plant in France.

The 5,320 MW nuclear power plant was developed on a 160-hectare site on the English Channel waterfront. Employ about 300,000 people. 1,250 full-time employees. It is owned and operated by EDF and includes four 1,330MW pressurized water reactor units. Water from the English Channel is used for cooling.

EDF began construction at the Paluel nuclear power plant in 1977.

Gravelines Nuclear Power Station is located on the French coast, between Calais and Dunkirk, 48km from Dover. Gravelines Nuclear Power Station has an installed capacity of 5,460MW, which is the largest nuclear power plant in France.

Owned and operated by the French state-owned utility Electricite De France (EDF), the Gravelines Nuclear Power Plant comprises six 910MW pressurised water reactors (PWR) units commissioned between 1980 and 1985.

Built on a 150ha-site in northern France, the six-reactor facility delivered its 1,000 billionth kilowatt-hour of electricity in 2010.

Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant is located in Enerhodar, Ukraine. It is one of the many super heritages left by the Soviet Union to Ukraine and one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world.

Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant has 6 VVER-1000 pressurized light water nuclear reactors, each generating 950 MW, for a total Installed capacity of 5,700 MW.

It is owned and operated by Energoatom, the Ukrainian state nuclear power generation company, and is one of four nuclear power plants in operation in Ukraine. It produces about half of the country’s nuclear power and accounts for more than 22% of the country’s total electricity generation.

Hanul Nuclear Power Plant is located on the east coast of South Korea, in Bugu-ri, Buk-myeon, Uljin-gun, North Gyeongsang Province.

Hanul Nuclear Power Plant has 8 reactors, 6 reactors are already in use and 2 reactors are under construction. The current total installed capacity is one of the top 10 largest nuclear power plants in the world.

The nuclear power plant’s reactor construction plan is divided into two phases. The first phase of the six reactors has been completed, with a total installed capacity of 5,928 MW. It began construction on 26 January 1983, and opened its first reactor and started generating electricity on 10 September 1988.

Phase 2 has 4 reactors with a planned installed capacity of 5360MW. Construction of the first 2 reactors started on 10 July 2012 and 19 June 2013, and is currently under construction.

Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant is located in Yangjiang City, Guangxi Province, on the southern coast of China. It is the largest nuclear power plant in China.

The total installed capacity of this power station is 6,000 MW, with a total of six 1000MW reactors. It total cost CNY 70 billion (US$10.2 billion).

It belongs to Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company (GNPJVC) and is operated and managed by Yangjiang Nuclear Power Company.

Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant is located in Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province in eastern China. It is China's first nuclear power plant designed by itself. The 300MW reactor (95% of components came from china manufactures) made in China was used for the first time.

This nuclear power plant is divided into three phases with an installed capacity of 4,101 MW. The first phase of the project started in 1984 and was completed and put into operation in 1991.

In the second phase of the project, two 600,000 kilowatt generator sets will be expanded on the original site, and construction has started in 1996.

The third phase of the project is the cooperation of the Chinese and Canadian governments, using heavy water reactor technology provided by Canada to build two 700,000 kilowatt generator sets, which were completed in 2003.

Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is located in Ontario, Canada. The power station is built on the east bank of Lake Huron. And it is one of the top 10 largest nuclear power plants in the world.

The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station with an installed capacity of 6,430 MW has a total of 8 reactors. The 8 reactors are divided into 2 factories, Bruce A and Bruce B, each with 4 reactors.

It total cost bout $7.8 billion CAD. Of which Bruce A cost $1.8 billion CAD, Bruce B cost $6 billion CAD.

Kori Nuclear Power Plant is located in Kori Village, Busan City, east of South Korea. Close to the Sea of Japan. The installed capacity is 7,489 MW.

The Kori Nuclear Power Plant currently has 8 reactors; there are 6 reactors in operation, of which 1 is still under construction and 1 has been decommissioned (but will remain in In the complex until the materials can be safely stored and removed).

Units 2, 3, and 4 started commercial operations in the 1980s, and are all slated to be decommissioned in the mid-2020s. All reactors on site are pressurized water reactors.

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant is located in Kashiwazaki and Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture in central Japan, near the Sea of Japan.

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power plant in the world, with an installed capacity of 7,965MW, but the plant has ceased service. Because of 2 major address accidents. The two earthquake accidents occurred in July 2007 and March 11, 2011 respectively.