Nuclear
power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a
nuclear reactor. As is typical in all conventional thermal power
stations the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine
connected to an electric generator which produces electricity. As of 23
April 2014, the IAEA report there are 435 nuclear power reactors in
operation operating in 31 countries. Here in this list Top 10 biggest
Nuclear Power plants by capacity given below. Read on:
Top 10 biggest Nuclear Power plants by capacity
1. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
The
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant is a large, modern (housing the
world's first ABWR) nuclear power plant on a 4.2-square-kilometer (1,038
acres) site including land in the towns of Kashiwazaki and Kariwa in
Niigata Prefecture, Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan, from where
it gets cooling water. The plant is owned and operated by Tokyo Electric
Power Company (TEPCO). Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO)
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Japan is currently the world's largest
nuclear power plant, with a net capacity of 7,965MW. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
has seven boiling water reactors (BWR) with a gross installed capacity
of 8,212MW.
2. The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station
Bruce
Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located
on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, in the communities of Inverhuron and
Tiverton, Ontario. It occupies 932 ha (2300 acres) of land. The
facility derives its name from Bruce County in which it is located, in
the former Bruce Township. It is the largest nuclear generating station
in the world by total reactor count, and number of operational reactors.
It having a total output of 6,272 MW and 7,276 MW (net) when all units
are online. This
nuclear facility is owned by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and operated by Bruce Power.
3. The Hanul Nuclear Power Plant
The Hanul Nuclear Power Plant
is
a large nuclear power station in the Gyeongsangbuk-do province of South
Korea. The facility has six pressurized water reactors (PWRs) with a
total installed capacity of 6,189MW to 5,881 MW. The first went online
in 1988. The plant's name was changed from Uljin to Hanul in 2013. On 4
May 2012, ground was broken for two new reactors, Shin ("new") Uljin-1
and -2 using APR-1400 reactors. The APR-1400 is a Generation III PWR
design with a gross capacity of 1400 MW. It is the first to use
Korean-made components for all critical systems.
4. The Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant
The
Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant is a large nuclear power station in the
Jeollanam-do province of South Korea. The facility runs at an installed
capacity of 5,875 MW. The power station is currently ranked as the
fourth largest nuclear power station in the world. The plant's name was
changed from Yeonggwang NPP to Hanbit in 2013 at the request of local
fishermen.
5. The Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Station
The
Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Station in Enerhodar, Ukraine, is the largest
nuclear power plant in Europe and the fifth largest in the world. It has
an installed net capacity of 5,700MW and a gross capacity of 6,000MW.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station is owned and operated by Energoatom,
Ukraine's state-run National Nuclear Energy Generating Company. The
plant accounts for more than one fifth of the country's total
electricity generation.
6. The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station
The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station
is
the sixth largest nuclear power station in the world, the second
largest in Europe, and the largest in Western Europe. It is located near
the commune of Gravelines in Nord, France, approximately 20 km (12 mi)
from Dunkerque and Calais. Its cooling water comes from the North Sea.
The plant houses 6 nuclear reactors with a unitary power of 900 MW. It's
installed net capacity of 5,460MW and a gross capacity of 5,706MW.
7. The Paluel Nuclear power station
Paluel
Nuclear power station lies within the French town Paluel in Normandy in
the Département Seine-Maritime. The nuclear power station, which
consists of four 1330 MWe class pressurized water reactors, total
installed power
5,320MW, it is about 40 kilometers far away from the city of Dieppe and
employs approx. 1,250 full-time workers. The operator is the French
company EDF. Water from the English Channel is used for cooling.
8. The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant
The
Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located in
Lorraine in the Cattenom commune, France, on the Moselle River between
Thionville (10 km upstream) and Trier (80 km downstream). It is close to
the city of Luxembourg (35 km) and Metz (40 km). The site consists of 4
pressurized water reactors that were all built between 1979 and 1991
and have an electric output of 1300 MW each, total
5,200 MW.
9. The Ōi Nuclear Power Plant
The
Ōi Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located in the town of
Ōi, Fukui Prefecture, managed by the Kansai Electric Power Company. The
site is 1.88 square kilometres (460 acres). Ōi Units 3 and 4 were
Japan's last operating nuclear power plants, being taken offline in
September, 2013. The net design capacity of the plant is 4,494MW.
10. The Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant
The
Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located
on a 150 ha (370-acre) site in the town of Naraha and Tomioka in the
Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power
Company (TEPCO) runs the plant. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and
tsunami, the four reactors at Fukushima II automatically shut down.
Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant (approximately 12 km (7.5 mi) to the north) after
the same March 11 earthquake. The 4,268MW (net) plant is owned and
operated by TEPCO. The plant consists of four BWR units with gross
capacity of 1,100MW and net capacity of 1,067MW each.
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