NUCLEAR-POWER-PLANTS IN EUROPE, 1992

atw's report, "Nuclear Power Plants in Europe, 1992", covers the situation in the nuclear power plant sector in nineteen European countries. As per July 1992, a total of 221 (1991: 222) nuclear generating units (meaning power reactors, for the purposes of this report) with an aggregate 175,703 (174,535) MWe of installed gross capacity are in operation in sixteen countries, while 33 (36) units with 31,582 (34,615) MWe are under construction in seven countries. This adds up to 254 (258) nuclear generating units with 207,285 (209,150) MWe. Since last year's atw report was published, one nuclear generating unit has been synchronized for the first time with the power grid in Europe: Penly-2, with a 1382 MWe pressurized water reactor on February 4, 1992. In Western Europe, the number of nuclear generating units under construction has dropped to six (1991: seven) with 8627 (9660) MWe, of which five (six) with 7427 (8460) MWe are being built in France.