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This statistic presents the international number of permanent nuclear reactor shutdowns between 2005 and August 19, 2015. Following the nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan in March 2011, four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were permanently shut down. In total, ** permanent shutdowns were decided in 2011.

Reactions to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Internationally, in 2014, nuclear power plants had a total capacity of more than ** megawatts. In 2011, ** nuclear reactors were permanently shut down worldwide. Many of these shutdowns echoed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which occurred when an earthquake and tsunami struck the region on March 11, 2011, causing equipment failures and three nuclear meltdowns. This is the second event after the Chernobyl disaster to be categorized as a Level * event by the International Nuclear Event Scale, which communicates important safety information about nuclear accidents. The disaster caused a loss of confidence in nuclear energy among a large part of the public, who questioned its safety. Subsequently, many countries accelerated their plans to shut down nuclear power plants. In 2014, for example, Germany represented *** percent of global nuclear energy consumption after implementing nuclear power plant shutdowns. In Italy, ** percent of people voted against new nuclear power plant construction programs in a referendum. Among opposition to nuclear energy in Japan, about ** percent declared themselves against the use of nuclear energy for electricity after the disaster. In other countries such as Germany, ** percent of opponents were already largely against nuclear energy before the events in Japan. In Japan, there were ** nuclear reactors in operation as of July 2015.