TOP 20 Largest Nuclear power plants

Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant. It is located in the east of South Korea near the Sea of Japan. It is built at Nae-ri, Yangnm-myeon, Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang province.

Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant will be constructed in two phases, with a total of 6 reactors and an installed capacity of 3,835 MW.

Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant is located in Dapeng New District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, near the South China Sea. The nuclear power plant is constructed in two phases, phase 1 has 2 reactors close to 950MW, phase 2 has 2 reactors of 1000MW, and 4 reactors have an installed capacity of 3,876 MW.

The Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant started construction in May 1997 and started to generate electricity in May 2002.

Rostov Nuclear Power Plant is located at the lower reaches of the Don River in Rostov Oblast, Russia, in the town of Volgodonsk in Rostov City. Therefore it is also called Volgodonsk Nuclear Power Plant. This nuclear power plant has a total of 4 reactors and currently has an installed capacity of 3,922 MW.

The construction of the No. 1 reactor of the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant began in 1977, but after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the project was interrupted and was completed and put into use in 2001. The construction of the No. 2 reactor began in 1983 and was completed in 2010.

In December 2015, the third unit was connected to the grid for the first time. Unit 4 conducted its first critical test on December 7, 2017, and was put into commercial operation on September 28, 2018. Units 3 and 4 are upgraded VVER-1000/320 subtypes.

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station is the largest nuclear power plant in the United States. It is located in Tonopah, Maricopa County, Arizona, in the western United States. It is about 72km (45 miles) from Phoenix in the east. It is close to the Gila River, but does not use the Gila River as a cooling source.

This nuclear power plant has one of the largest power reactors in the world, with a single capacity of 1300MW. Therefore, only three reactors have become the largest nuclear power plant in the United States with an installed capacity of 3,942 MW. Its average electricity production is about 3.3 gigawatts (GW), which accounts for about 35% of Arizona's electricity generation.

Balakovo nuclear power station is located in the city of Balakovo, Saratov Oblast, Russia. Built on the shore of Volga River, about 900 kilometres (560 mi) south-east of Moscow, 145 km from Saratov city.

Balakovo station consists of 4 operational reactors(WER-1000), The installed capacity is 4,000 MW. Owner and operator of the nuclear power station is Rosenergoatom, It has more than 4,000 employees.

The Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant is located in Qianxue Village, Sanshan Town, Fuqing City, Fujian Province, in the east of China, close to the Taiwan Strait.

Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant is divided into two phases. A total of four 1000MW second-generation improved PWR nuclear power units and two third-generation hydraulic reactor Hualong 1 (CPR-1000) are planned. The total planned installed capacity is estimated to be 6000MW. Investment close to 100 billion yuan (US $14.7 billion ).

The current installed capacity of Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant is 4,356 MW. This power station is operated by China National Nuclear Corporation Fujian Fuqing Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., which was established on May 16, 2006.

The Ningde Nuclear Power Plant is located in Taimushan Town, Ningde City, Fujian Province in eastern China, near the East China Sea. The nuclear power plant will be constructed in two phases.

Phase 1 invests 52 billion yuan (US$7.6 billion) to build a total of 4 1,000MW-class reactors. Construction of power generation unit No. 1 began on February 18, 2008, and began commercial operation on April 15, 2013. All 4 power generation units in Phase 1 were fully completed on July 21, 2016.

The second phase of the project includes two China's self-developed "Hualong No. 1" reactors (HPR-1000), which are currently under construction.

The total cost of the Ningde nuclear power plant will exceed 70 billion yuan (10.2 billion US dollars). The current installed capacity is 4,072 MW, and the installed capacity after all stations is expected to be 6,000 MW.

Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Northeast China. It is located in Hongyanhe Town, Wafangdian City, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, Near the Bohai Sea.

The nuclear power plant began construction in 2007, and the first reactor was commissioned on June 6, 2013.

The construction of Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant is divided into 2 phases. Phase I has built a total of 4 reactors, with a completed installed capacity of 4,122 MW. 2 reactors of Phase II are under construction, of which Unit 5 has been installed.

Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant is located in Tianwan District, Lianyungang District, 30 kilometers away from Yungang City in Jiangsu Province on the east coast of China.

The installed capacity of this nuclear power plant is 5,070 MW. Construction started on October 20, 1999, power generation began on May 12, 2006, and commercial operation began on May 17, 2007.

The power plant is developed jointly by China and Russia. The Chinese party is Jiangsu Nuclear Power Company, and the major shareholder of this company is China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). The Russian side is Atomstroyexport (ASE), which is controlled by the Russian nuclear industry company Rosatom.

Cattenom Nuclear Power Plantis located in Grand Est in the Cattenom commune, France, on the Moselle River. between Thionville (7 km upstream) and Trier (48 km downstream). It is close to the city of Luxembourg (22 km) and Metz (32 km).

This nuclear power plant consists of 4 pressurized water reactors, all of which were built between 1979 and 1991, each generating 1300 MW, and the total Installed capacity is 5,200 MW. The power plant is a relatively modern large nuclear power plant.

In 2019, its power generation was second only to Gravelines Nuclear Power Station and Paluel Nuclear Power Plant in French.

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.