Nuclear power which country is the strongest

Nuclear power is strongest in the United States.

The United States has 96 nuclear power units spread across 30 states and operated by 30 different electric utilities, with a total installed capacity of 98.2GW.In 2019, the United States generated 809TWh of nuclear power, which is more than 30% of the world's total nuclear power generation.However, nuclear power accounts for only 20% of the U.S. electricity market. The U.S. has a much larger share of natural gas and coal generation, and second, France, where nuclear power accounts for about 70 percent of the country's electricity generation, the highest in the world.

France has 58 units in operation with an installed capacity of 63.1GW, with Flamanville 3 under construction.With 382.4TWh of nuclear power generation in 2019, France generates about 17% of its electricity from renewable nuclear fuel. Low production costs make it the world's largest net exporter of nuclear energy, with its oldest unit, Fessenheim 1/2, shutting down in 2020 for environmental reasons, and thirdly, China, where the Taishan nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province features two EPR units.

Nuclear power plants

While thermal power plants use coal and oil to generate electricity, and hydroelectric power plants use water power to generate electricity, nuclear power plants are a new type of power plant that utilizes the energy contained within the nucleus of an atom to generate electricity. A nuclear power plant can be roughly divided into two parts: one is the nuclear island, including the reactor unit and a circuit system, which uses nuclear energy to produce steam, and the other is the conventional island, including the turbine generator system, which uses steam to generate electricity.

Nuclear power plant fuel is uranium, uranium is a very heavy metal, made of uranium nuclear fuel in a device called the reactor fission and produce a lot of heat, and then in the high pressure of the water to bring out the heat, in the steam generator to produce steam, the steam to promote the gas turbine with generators rotating together, electricity is constantly produced, and sent to all directions through the power grid, which is the How the most common pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant works.