ELECNUC. Nuclear power plants in the world - 2014 edition. Status on 12-31-2013, Draft using the IAEA's PRIS database and specific I-tese studies

Japan situation has not significantly changed since 2012, almost all its nuclear power plants are still stopped. The process for restarting 48 of them is under way but expected to take some years. As last year no order was registered, but 2013 met an important number of building starts concerning 10 new PWR (11.3 GWe): 1 - Belarus: First building site in eastern Europe (excluded Russia) for more than 25 years. 2 - USA: Four PWR units (4.5 GWe) that represent the first new buildings in this country since 1977. 3 - China: Three new PWR, that leads to a total of 27 plants under construction in this country. 4 - United Arab Emirates and South Korea: The sister-ships of Barakah-2 and Shin-Hanul-2 started right after the No.1 units in 2012. These 10 new plants are all PWR units, which is coherent with the worldwide situation of 58 PWR constructions for only 4 PHWR in India (and 4 BWR - 2 in Japan and 2 in Taiwan - all delayed for different reasons). Worldwide capacity balance Despite the commercial start of 3 GWe (2 PWR in China, 1 in Iran), the planned shutdown of 6 units (5.4 GWe: Fukushima-Daishi 5 and 6 in Japan and 4 PWR in USA) leads to a decrease of -2.4 GWe of the nuclear capacity. Thanks to a better average load factor the overall nuclear electricity production still increases of 13 TWh. But as 4.1 GWe (3 PWR in China, 1 in India) were connected to the grid and the constructions represent more than 50 units with about 10 annual commercial operations for the next four years, this loss of capacity should be exceptional. Contents: 1) 2013 highlights; 2) Main characteristics of reactor types; 3) Map of the French nuclear power plants on 01/01/2013; 4) Worldwide status of nuclear power plants (12/31/2013); 5) Units distributed by countries; 6) Nuclear power plants connected to the Grid- by reactor type groups (12/31/2013); 7) Nuclear power plants under construction on 2013; 8) Evolution of nuclear power plants capacities connected to the grid; 9) First electric generations supplied by a nuclear unit in each country; 10) Electricity generation from nuclear power plants by country at the end of 2013; 11) Performance indicator of French PWR units; 12) Evolution of the generation indicators worldwide by type; 13) Main nuclear operator ranking according to their installed capacity; 14) Units connected to the grid by countries at 12/31/2013 22; 15) Status of license renewal applications in USA; 16) Nuclear power plants under construction at 12/31/2013; 17) Shutdown reactors; 18) Exported nuclear capacity in net MWe; 19) Exported and national nuclear capacity connected to the grid; 20) Exported nuclear power plants under construction; 21) Exported and national nuclear capacity under construction; 22) Nuclear power plants planned at 12/31/2013; 23) Long term shutdown units at 12/31/2013; 24) COL applications in the USA; 25) Recycling of Plutonium in reactors and experiences; 26) Mox license plants projects; 27) Appendix - Historical development; 28) Meaning of the used acronyms; 29) Glossary