Situation of world nuclear technology

Understanding and learning the world's nuclear nations that have developed for many years, especially the nuclear power powers are necessary for a country that has just stepped on the road to build nuclear power technology. like Vietnam.

>>>History of formation and development of nuclear energy

Historical milestones

The 1950s of the 20th century saw the birth and development of all continents of the first commercial nuclear power plants.

Figure 1 - Reactor Experimental Breeder Reactor EBR-I, Arco, Idaho, USA

First of all, one should mention the EBR-I Nuclear Energy Test Reactor, in Arco, Idaho, USA. This furnace, from December 20, 1951, first conducted electricity production and lit four light bulbs.

Secondly, Obninsk APS-1 Nuclear Power Plant, Russia, is the first factory in the world to generate commercial electricity on June 26, 1954, putting it on the net despite a very small total capacity of 5 MW. The kiln operating half a century until April 30, 2002 stopped.

Two years later, the Calder Hall 1 nuclear plant in England was launched on July 27, 1956, connected to the national grid with a capacity of 50MW. This is the first nuclear power plant (NM Hanoi) to be considered really commercial and operational until March 2003.

World nuclear power industry

After that period of 5 years of significant historical significance, over the past 50 years, the accuracy of March 11, 2014, worldwide has 31 countries with NPP with 435 reactors completed and are transmit 372GW of power. Nuclear power plants supplied about 11.5% of the world's total electricity output and more than three times the total output of France and Germany from all sources together, a solid bottom load source and zero emissions. toxic gas of CO ₂ greenhouse. About 72 reactors with 68 GW are under construction in 15 countries, equivalent to 20% of existing capacity and more than 160 reactors have been planned to build with certainty, equivalent to half of the existing capacity. In addition, there are about 240 research reactors and more than 180 other nuclear reactors that power about 150 ships and submarines in 56 different countries.

More details on the situation of nuclear power plants worldwide can be found in the Data Sheet (According to IAEA, March 11, 2014) and the following Figures 2 and 3.

Figure 2 - Distribution of active furnaces in the world (Relative% for each country. Data on March 11, 2014 according to IAEA).

Table of figures: Number of nuclear power plants worldwide operating and under construction

Of the 31 nuclear countries listed in the Table, the US, Russia and France are considered the most prominent nuclear power powers.

The United States is at the top of the list with 104 operating nuclear reactors with a total capacity of 101,465MW and five under construction with a total capacity of 5,633MW.

France is in second place with 58 nuclear reactors operating in production with a total generating capacity of 63,130 MW and a furnace under construction of the largest capacity today with a generation capacity of 1,600MW.

Russia is in third place with 38 operating nuclear reactors with a total generating capacity of 23,643 MW and 10 under construction with a total capacity of 8,382 MW.

Figure 3 - Distribution of furnaces (Relativity between countries for each other) is being built around the world (Data on March 11, 2014, according to IAEA).

These three nuclear power countries are also the largest partners that Vietnam has been aiming to cooperate in investment, technology transfer and training of human resources to serve nuclear power technology. his fledgling.