Nuclear reactors of the world - interesting statistics

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

OLSO, Feb 4 (AFP) - Russia is one of five countries which  operate 
nuclear-powered naval vessels, the Bellona Foundation 
environmental protection group notes in its report on the Russian 
Northern Fleet. The others are the United States, Britain, France 
and China.  The submarines of the Western countries usually have 
only  reactor on board, while mos; Russian submarines are 
powered bµ two reactors. The Russuón Northern Fleet operates 67 
nuclear submarines with a  total of 115 reactors between them, 
plus two nuclear-powered battle cruisers which each have two 
reactors. In addition it has 52 submarines with a total of 101 
reactors  which have been retired from service but still contain their 
nuclear fuel. Russia has a total of 215 submarine nuclear reactors, 
Bellona  estimates, compared with 99 for the United States, 16 for 
Britain, 11 for France and six for China. There are a total of 240 
nuclear reactors in the Kola  peninsula/Severodinsk region on the 
White Sea, the greatest concentration of reactors in the world. Of 
these, 236 are naval reactors on board submarines and ships,  and 
four are land-based reactors at the Kola nuclear power station. 
Bellona notes that there are a total of 442 reactors in  operation at 
civilian nuclear power plants in 30 different countries around the 
world. Of these, 107 are located in the United States, 56 in France, 
36  in Russia, 35 in Britain and three in China. There are in addition 
292 research and experimental reactors  spread around more than 
58 countries. 73 of these are located in the United States, 22 in 
Russia, 19 in France, 13 in China and eight in Britain. In addition, 
there are around 10 other active reactors in the  world designed to 
produce weapons-grade nuclear materials, four of them located in 
Siberia. Bellona calculates the total number of nuclear reactors in 
the world at 1,225. 

Sandy Perle
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