According to a report by World Nuclear News, the latest report released by the World Nuclear Energy Association shows that the global nuclear power industry is still slowly moving forward. Among them, Asia is continuously leading the growth of global nuclear power installed capacity.
On the 24th of October, the World Nuclear Energy Association released the "Special Edition for the World Nuclear Report 2017." According to the "Report", 8 of the 10 nuclear reactors newly opened in the world last year were located in Asia, while in the whole of last year, the Asian region The total nuclear power generation has doubled from that of 30 years ago to 448 TWh, an increase of 11.5% over 2015 and up to 35% from the 2012 increase.
According to the "Report" statistics, in last year, nuclear power generation in Asia accounted for 18% of the total nuclear power generation in the world. From a specific point of view, mainland China was the region with the most nuclear power generation in Asia last year with a total installed capacity of 3.3657 million trillion 37 nuclear reactors watched a total of 210.5 TWh last year, followed by South Korea, which has 24 nuclear reactors with a total installed capacity of 22505 MW and a total of 154.2 TWh last year.India has 22 nuclear reactors with a total installed capacity of 6219 megawatts last year, the total generating capacity of 35 terawatt-hours. Another distribution in Iran, Pakistan and Taiwan, China 12 nuclear reactors last year, generating a total of 41.5 terawatt hours.
According to the World Association of Nuclear Energy, nuclear power generation in India and Pakistan more than doubled in the past 10 years and even more than doubled nuclear power generation in China. In contrast to this, Japan, despite having 42 available nuclear reactors With a total installed capacity of 39,952 MW. However, due to the slow restart of nuclear power plants after the Fukushima nuclear accident, last year the nuclear power generation capacity was only 17.5 TWh.
World Nuclear Association said it expects nuclear power in Asia to continue to grow in the future because of the two-thirds of the 61 nuclear reactors currently under construction in the world, with a total installed capacity of 220.6 million megawatts In addition, in India, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates and other places there are 19 nuclear reactors under construction, with a total installed capacity of about 219,800 kilowatts.
In addition, the report also pointed out that many Asian countries that currently do not have nuclear power generation capacity are planning or considering building nuclear power plants. Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey and There are plans or construction of nuclear power plants in Vietnam. There are 57 planned nuclear reactors with a total installed capacity of 60,430 MW.
Jonathan Cobb, senior communications manager of the World Nuclear Association, said: 'This release shows that Asia is leading the world in new capacity expansion of nuclear power and we hope to take this positive trend to further accelerate the growth of nuclear power in Asia and around the world.'
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) proposed in August this year that in the long run nuclear power still has great potential for growth. It is estimated that by 2050, the global installed capacity of nuclear power may double and the share of nuclear power in global power generation will continue increase.
Earlier, the World Nuclear Association had set a target for the development of nuclear power based on the IEA's 2 degree Celsius warming index, which will provide about 25% of the global electricity supply by 2050, so it is estimated that there will be about 1000 new global needs It is calculated that in order to achieve this goal, an average of 10 GW of new nuclear power needs to be installed from now on, and an average of 25 GW of nuclear power installed annually from 2021 to 2025 ; From 2026 onwards, an additional 33 GW of new nuclear power needs to be further added each year.
According to the report of the World Nuclear Energy Association, a total of 9 GW of newly installed nuclear power was installed globally last year, the largest annual increase in 25 years. According to the World Nuclear Energy Association, this shows that the nuclear power industry is gradually "recovering from prosperity" and is promising to achieve 2 Celsius temperature rise of the development goals.