15 LARGEST Nuclear Facilities in the World

A Nuclear Power Plant is a thermal power station that employs a nuclear reactor to create a heat source. The heat generates steam to drive the turbines, which in turn produce electricity within their generators. As of 2022, there are 440 nuclear power plants operating across 33 countries and territories around the globe! But building these plants can be pretty tough, and take anywhere from five years to a decade to build, and can cost a fortune. But, they are proving to be more and more important as the world turns and as the need for renewable energies becomes more apparent. So join us for today’s video, where we look at the 15 largest nuclear facilities!

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[dodiewallace]

NP is the gold standard of clean energy. It’s as clean and safe as any alternative, requires a fraction of the resources and produces clean, reliable energy 24/7/365. NP really is the premier example of dematerialization in which we actually use less to produce more.

[AlldaylongRock]

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP could supply a country like Portugal almost fully with electricity, and we have one measly 65MW solar farm occupying basically the same area. The insanity of ignoring nuclear power

[demolitiondan]

I live 5 minutes from the Bruce nuclear plant, and worked there for over 10 years….👍🏻

[neilhilton]

Found this very interesting and informative. Love it or hate it, nuclear power generation currently has it's place in a balanced energy portfolio.

[ozymandiasultor]

That first thing you showed, which you said is part of nuclear powerplants is a "tokamak", that is something which is in an experimental stage, a nuclear fusion reactor, and such thing is still not making energy, what we have as nuclear powerplants work on nuclear fission, so it is a gross mistake.

[angevgeridoni]

What are the top 15 nuclear wastes garbages facilities ?

[timholstpetersen]

As one of the first parts of the clip, you show a FUSION reactor, LOL ;-)

[enginerepairguy]

Is this voice some kind of artificial or cgi kind of thing? Because i sounds funny the way he talks about units like MW ect.

[jonathanlanglois]

I did not expect the Bruce power station to make it that high on the list. I spent almost the entire video just expecting that it was somewhere on this list.

[php]

I wish more and more nuclear power plants were of the true fail safe CANDU design. They are the only reactor type that can safely shut down and the fuel reach a cool state when there is a major loss of coolant to the core. All other reactors must circulate coolant as part of their shut down or emergency systems. The CANDU is also the only reactor that can refuel itself while in operation. One of my brother in laws works there at Bruce and used to work at Pickering.

[simonloncaric]

Why was the video of hazmat suits necessary?

[DjChronokun]

while Kashiwazaki-Kariwa is offline, Kori is the largest plant currently fully operational

Kori will also be the largest in world when the new reactors are fully constructed

[fabricealibert]

I AM SURPRISED, YOU DIDN'T MENTION THE UNITED STATES.
WHERE ARE THEY IN THIS RANK?

[philip]

How about a video about the smallest reactors. Distributed power generation should be our future.

[giantsspotter]

Join us for watching amazing interesting airplane and entertaining videos.

[HughNeylan]

1:00 “4, 000 meters of water equivalent” lol. I assume you mean 4000MWe which is 4000 megawatts equivalent…

[vidyadharjoshi]

Nuclear Power is the answer for base load supply around the world. The policy makers should keep them going. The general design life is around 40 yrs and plans for replacement must be adhered to. Yes they take long time to build but are stable source of large amount of energy. Smaller plants are also coming and must be encouraged. Rather than one huge machine, 2 or more mid size are far better.

[clubghz]

Why would you build a power plant on the beach it's just waiting for tsunami.

[kelvincannon]

As much as people end-up on the streets, anyone would assume that teaching youth, how to set-up a tent, before the limbs freeze 🥶 up, catch gangrene, & fall-off, & or need to be amputated is absolutely necessary! #TheAbuseOfPower #LickedySplit

[VladimirMiyazaki]

Arunachal Pradesh has the potential to generate 100, 000 Terawatt