> what came to my surprise is that Poland, Turkey, Scandinavian countries, Africa have literally 1 to none nuclear stations.

Also, Austria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Austria

Short timeline:

- 1972: started building its first nuclear power plant

- 1978: parliament decides to ban nuclear power for 20 years

- 1997: ban is made permanent

Note that the initial decision for the ban was even before Chernobyl (the event that greatly boosted anti-nuclear sentiment in Europe).

What's important to keep in mind is that fuel from nuclear power plants can also be used for developing nuclear weapons, so historically only states "trustworthy" to the US or the former USSR were allowed access to the technology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation#Dual-Use...).

In Scandinavia i would say Denmark is the anomaly. Their bet is on wind power.

I think they also had a negative sentiment towards nuclear because Sweden built one of their (now closed) plants very close to Copenhagen.

Norway has so much high yield Hydro power that they would not need it.

(The difference between Swedish and Norwegian hydro is that the landscape is more dramatic so they can get a big height difference. Whereas Sweden has to rely on huge reservoirs to store water).

Both Sweden and Finland has Nuclear power, at the scale or higher than their population would sustain, and Finland opened their latest plant as late as 2023.

Poland has test nuclear reactor: https://www.ncbj.gov.pl/en/maria-reactor

We were building NPP based on VVER reactors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBarnowiec_Nuclear_Power_P...

We're going to build at least one, the planning phase is rather advanced and real building is expected to start in 2026, with completion expected in 2033-2035.

https://ppej.pl/en/news/information-on-the-status-of-field-w...

Alternative ( with individual Nuclear Power Plants ):

"Open Infrastructure Map is a view of the world's infrastructure mapped in the OpenStreetMap database."

like: https://openinframap.org/#12.37/49.08812/16.15412

What's a "nuclear station" .. does a 20 megawatt reactor count?

https://www.ansto.gov.au/education/nuclear-facts

How about mobile reactors .. they're purposely hard to geolocate but their number is (up to a point) relatively well known (within circles).

Are you across the reactors under construction? China has a good number on the go and planned to break ground in the near future, both on their home soil and for global clients.

> and Africa specifically was sourcing lots of nuclear fuel for other countries other the years.

Not especially willingly as an active source. The Congo region was the source of much of the Cold War nuclear material for the vast proliferation of nuclear weapons, but various non African powers kept the area in conflict to prevent the rise of any representative government that would oppose that extraction.

Nice work! Can you consider finding a different solution for the many entries on Null Island, please?

There are a couple plants under construction in Kemmerer, WY and Oak Ridge, TN:

https://www.terrapower.com/terrapower-begins-construction-in...

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/kairos-power-starts-const...

There is a circle with 10 nuclear stations that is erroneously located (on the map) in the Atlantic just south of West Africa. That should be in/near China.

I have been looking for spare nuclear rods and various waste for a few hobby projects and this map should help. Well done!

Interesting tool. What is the source of your data? I doubt some countries would let the world know their real capacity.

In Sweden there is also a closed down reactor close to the Stockholm city center at the technical university (KTH).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R1_(nuclear_reactor)

Not the same as the Ågesta reactor, which is mapped.

Maybe you include only power reactors and exclude research reactors? In the latter category is this decommissioned reactor not shown on your map: https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/

please consider filling in some gaps -- in the United States, for instance, your current map does not show any of the "experimental" reactors, and is even missing some of the Power Utilities reactors I am familiar with. I suspect that the DOE (US) has databases and maps which show most of those.

There are many (not currently shown) in eastern Washington State, and many in Idaho State (US)

I also have a friend who did the geologic surveys for a number of commercial nuclear stations in Africa -- so perhaps those did not end up in the database you used to source your data?

https://resourcewatch.org/data/explore/Powerwatch is also a resource.

Something seems to be off with the grouping. If you look at Chinon (France) there are 2 different statuses, but 3 groups. A1 is not grouped with A2 and A3.

This is super cool! Curious how you got the data, web scraping I assume?

Wonderful.

Now, if we add the layers of the SubmarinCableMap [0] DataCenterMap [1] - and we begin to track shipments

And

https://i.imgur.com/zO0yz6J.png -- Left is nuke, top = cables, bottom = datacenters. I went to ImportYeti to look into the NVIDIA shipments: https://i.imgur.com/k9018EC.png

And you look at the suppliers that are coming from Taiwan, such as the water-coolers and power cables to sus out where they may be shipping to, https://i.imgur.com/B5iWFQ1.png -- but instead, it would be better to find shipping lables for datacenters that are receiving containers from Taiwain, and the same suppliers as NVIDIA for things such as power cables. While the free data is out of date on ImportYeti - it gives a good supply line idea for NVIDIA... with the goal to find out which datacenters that are getting such shipments, you can begin to measure the footprint of AI as it grows, and which nuke plants they are likely powered from.

Then, looking into whatever reporting one may access for the consumption/util of the nuke's capacity in various regions, we can estimate the power footprint of growing Global Compute.

DataCenterNews and all sorts of datasets are available - and now the ability to create this crawler/tracker is likely full implementable

https://i.imgur.com/gsM75dz.png https://i.imgur.com/a7nGGKh.png

[0] https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

[1] https://www.datacentermap.com/

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