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Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power is the nuclear steam supply system vendor for 33 reactor units on record, 20 of them operating, totalling 24.1 GW of gross capacity across 2 countries.

Operating units
20
24.1 GW gross
Under construction
4
Planned
6
Retired
0

Operator of the entire South Korean fleet and vendor of the OPR-1000 and APR-1400. The APR-1400 is the design exported to the United Arab Emirates for the four-unit Barakah station, the first nuclear plant in the Arab world. A subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Corporation.

Company
HeadquartersGyeongju, South Korea
Founded2001
Ownershipstate
Roles in the chainvendor, operator
Installed base by country
South Korea16
United Arab Emirates4

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power in context

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power is the reactor vendor for 20 of the 419 operating units on record (4.8%), 7th of 13 vendors by operating units, 24,080 MW gross in total.

The median age of its operating units is 14.0 years, against 39.0 for the whole operating fleet.

Its 20 finished units with construction and grid dates took a median 5.1 years to build, against 6.0 across all finished reactors.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power is the vendor of 2 reactor design lines (OPR-1000 and APR-1400), covering 33 units on record, 20 of them operating.

How these are worked out: shares and ranks use the world totals cited in the table, and only named companies are ranked (unnamed or country-level entries in a source are not). A facility with no stated capacity is counted as a facility but adds nothing to a capacity figure. Vendor figures count operating units where this company is the recorded reactor vendor; ages count from the start-up year on record, and build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the age and build-times pages.

Design lines

DesignGenerationCapacityOperatingUnits
OPR-1000 II+ 1000 MWe gross 12 12
APR-1400 III 1400–1455 MWe gross 8 21

Installed base

UnitCountryStatusModelGross MWOnline
Saeul nuclear power plant 2 South Korea Operating APR-1400 1,491 2019
Saeul nuclear power plant 1 South Korea Operating APR-1400 1,488 2016
Shin-Hanul nuclear power plant 1 South Korea Operating APR-1400 1,455 2022
Barakah nuclear power plant 1 United Arab Emirates Operating APR-1400 1,417 2021
Barakah nuclear power plant 2 United Arab Emirates Operating APR-1400 1,417 2022
Barakah nuclear power plant 3 United Arab Emirates Operating APR-1400 1,417 2023
Barakah nuclear power plant 4 United Arab Emirates Operating APR-1400 1,417 2024
Shin-Hanul nuclear power plant 2 South Korea Operating APR-1400 1,400 2023
Hanbit nuclear power plant 6 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,053 2002
Hanul nuclear power plant 4 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,052 1999
Hanbit nuclear power plant 5 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,051 2002
Hanul nuclear power plant 3 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,051 1998
Hanul nuclear power plant 5 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,049 2004
Hanul nuclear power plant 6 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,049 2005
Shin-Kori nuclear power plant 1 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,048 2011
Shin-Wolsong nuclear power plant 1 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,048 2012
Shin-Wolsong nuclear power plant 2 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,048 2015
Shin-Kori nuclear power plant 2 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,047 2012
Hanbit nuclear power plant 3 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,041 1995
Hanbit nuclear power plant 4 South Korea Operating OPR-1000 1,041 1996
Saeul nuclear power plant 3 South Korea Under construction APR-1400 1,400 2026
Saeul nuclear power plant 4 South Korea Under construction APR-1400 1,400 2026
Shin-Hanul nuclear power plant 3 South Korea Under construction APR-1400 1,400 2032
Shin-Hanul nuclear power plant 4 South Korea Under construction APR-1400 1,400 2033
Pątnów nuclear power plant 1 Poland Announced APR-1400 1,400 2035
Pątnów nuclear power plant 2 Poland Announced APR-1400 1,400 -
Duwaiheen nuclear power plant 1 Saudi Arabia Announced APR-1400 1,400 -
Duwaiheen nuclear power plant 2 Saudi Arabia Announced APR-1400 1,400 -
Shin-Wolsong nuclear power plant 3 South Korea Cancelled (inferred) APR-1400 1,350 -
Shin-Wolsong nuclear power plant 4 South Korea Cancelled (inferred) APR-1400 1,350 -
Idaho Energy Complex Payette County nuclear power plant 1 United States Cancelled APR-1400 1,350 -
Buyende nuclear power plant 1 Uganda Announced APR-1400 1,000 2031
Buyende nuclear power plant 2 Uganda Announced APR-1400 1,000 -

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