Operating Experience with Nuclear Power Stations in Member States in 2003
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Author(s): IAEA
Publisher: IAEA
ISBN: 9201143044
Format: softback
838pp
Price: €170.50
Review Date: 11 August 2005
Review: This large report is the 35th in the Agency’s series of annual reports. It gives operating experience data for all worldwide nuclear power plants after starting commercial operation. In addition to annual performance data and outage information, the report contains a historical summary of performance and outages during the lifetime of individual plants, as well as figures that illustrate worldwide performance and statistical data. Load, operation and availability factors are used as the basic performance factors. Energy unavailability factors, separated into planned and unplanned unavailability, due either to causes in the plant or causes external to the plant, are use as a measure of energy lost through he unit no being available. According to the information available to the IAEA at the end of 2003, there were 439 nuclear power plant reactors operating in the world, with a total net capacity of 361.09 GW(e). In 2003 two new reactors, with a total capacity of 1625 MW(e) were connected to the grid in China and in the Republic of Korea.