Angra nuclear power plant

Angra nuclear power plant in context

Angra nuclear power plant is the only operating nuclear site in Brazil on record, so it holds all of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 92nd of 172 operating sites worldwide by gross capacity.

Its operating units started up between 1985 and 2001; the median unit is 33.0 years old.

The 2 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 10.9 to 24.6 years (median 17.7) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 2000s is 6.8 years.

No other nuclear site with an exact position in this dataset lies within 300 km.

The current net rating of Unit 2 differs from its design net capacity by +2.4% (1,245 MW at design, 1,275 MW now).

Build time by unit

How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.