The IAEA has released the 2022 edition of Country Nuclear Power Profiles (CNPP), marking more than two decades since the launch of the Agency’s comprehensive guide on the status and development of national nuclear power programmes worldwide.
As more and more countries look to nuclear power to meet their climate change and energy security needs, the CNPP’s role is taking on greater importance in supporting the effective planning, decision making and implementation of nuclear power programmes as part of the IAEA’s overall efforts to support the safe and economical operation of nuclear power plants.
Commenting on the release, Aline des Cloizeaux, Director of the IAEA’s Division of Nuclear Power, said, “The Country Nuclear Power Profiles have been fulfilling a vital need for a high-level overview of nuclear power infrastructure and developments of nuclear energy programmes in participating Member States since 1998. The consolidated set of reports, publicly available on the IAEA CNPP website and updated annually with the publication, typically ranks among the IAEA’s top 10 most accessed documents.”
Thirty countries contributed new or updated information for the 2022 edition, ranging from those with operational and expanding nuclear power programmes to newcomers considering nuclear power, such as Kazakhstan, or countries in the construction phase, such as Bangladesh and Türkiye, which are on the cusp of connecting their first nuclear power plants to the grid. Countries that have phased out nuclear power, such as Italy, or are considering bringing it back, like Lithuania, also feature in the report.
