Do most incidents happen during commissioning or in normal operation?
1,380 entries (61%) happened in normal operation and 102 (5%) at commissioning, which is where contracts and insurance wordings concentrate their attention.
Counted from the register's published entries on 2026-11-03. Every entry is written from published news and trade reporting and lists its sources. Benchmarks by stage of life.
Read the count as a count of what is recorded. The register is new and has been filling in an archive, so a rise across years is a measure of the register, not of the world, and a country with open reporting appears more often than one without. The methodology says how entries are found, written and checked.
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