Nuclear power in Ukraine

nuclearchain.net/countries/ukraine/ · data: Global Energy Monitor (GNPT, August 2026), CC BY 4.0 · printed from the live page

Ukraine operates 15 nuclear power reactors across 9 sites, with 13.8 GW of gross capacity. 4 units have been retired.

Operating

13.8 GW gross

Under construction

Planned

incl. 0 announced

Retired

14 cancelled

Operating4Retired1circle area ∝ site capacity Coastlines, borders and lakes: Natural Earth (1:10 million, public domain), which is generalised, so a coastal plant can sit a couple of kilometres off its true shoreline. Site positions: Global Nuclear Power Tracker.

Operating fleet by type: PWR (15). Principal operator: SE NNEGC "Energoatom".

Operating capacity over time

First reactor online1978

Peak13.8 GW in 2006

Now13.8 GW 15 units

2026 so farno change

Gross capacity of units that had started up and not been permanently shut down by 31 December each year (2026 is to date). Amber marks the peak, green the present.

Data table

Year	Units online	GW gross	Change, GW
1978	1	0.80	+0.80
1979	2	1.80	+1.00
1981	3	2.22	+0.42
1982	5	3.64	+1.42
1983	6	4.64	+1.00
1984	7	5.64	+1.00
1985	9	7.64	+2.00
1987	11	9.64	+2.00
1988	13	11.64	+2.00
1989	15	13.64	+2.00
1991	14	12.64	−1.00
1996	14	12.84	+0.20
2000	13	11.84	−1.00
2005	14	12.84	+1.00
2006	15	13.84	+1.00

Only years in which capacity changed are listed.

Position in the fuel chain

Facility	Stage	Operator	Capacity / output
Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility	dry storage	Energoatom	not disclosed
Ingulska	mining	SkhidHZK	not disclosed
Smolinska	mining	SkhidHZK	not disclosed
Novokostiantynivska	mining	SkhidHZK	not disclosed

All units in Ukraine

Unit	Site	Status	Type	Gross MW	Online
Khmelnitski nuclear power plant 1	Khmelnitski nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1988
Khmelnitski nuclear power plant 2	Khmelnitski nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	2005
Rivne nuclear power plant 1	Rivne nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	420	1981
Rivne nuclear power plant 2	Rivne nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	415	1982
Rivne nuclear power plant 3	Rivne nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1987
Rivne nuclear power plant 4	Rivne nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	2006
South Ukraine nuclear power plant 1	South Ukraine nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1983
South Ukraine nuclear power plant 2	South Ukraine nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1985
South Ukraine nuclear power plant 3	South Ukraine nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1989
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant 1	Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1985
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant 2	Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1986
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant 3	Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1987
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant 4	Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1988
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant 5	Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1989
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant 6	Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant	Operating	PWR	1,000	1996
Khmelnitski nuclear power plant 3	Khmelnitski nuclear power plant	Pre-construction	PWR	1,089	-
Khmelnitski nuclear power plant 4	Khmelnitski nuclear power plant	Pre-construction	PWR	1,089	-
Khmelnitski nuclear power plant 5	Khmelnitski nuclear power plant	Pre-construction	PWR	1,250	2032
Khmelnitski nuclear power plant 6	Khmelnitski nuclear power plant	Pre-construction	PWR	1,250	2032
Chernobyl nuclear power plant 1	Chernobyl nuclear power plant	Retired	LWGR	800	1978
Chernobyl nuclear power plant 2	Chernobyl nuclear power plant	Retired	LWGR	1,000	1979
Chernobyl nuclear power plant 3	Chernobyl nuclear power plant	Retired	LWGR	1,000	1982
Chernobyl nuclear power plant 4	Chernobyl nuclear power plant	Retired	LWGR	1,000	1984
Chernobyl nuclear power plant 5	Chernobyl nuclear power plant	Cancelled	LWGR	1,000	-
Chernobyl nuclear power plant 6	Chernobyl nuclear power plant	Cancelled	LWGR	1,000	-
Chyhyryn nuclear power plant 1	Chyhyryn nuclear power plant	Cancelled	PWR	1,000	-
Chyhyryn nuclear power plant 2	Chyhyryn nuclear power plant	Cancelled	PWR	1,000	-
Chyhyryn nuclear power plant 3	Chyhyryn nuclear power plant	Cancelled	PWR	1,000	-
Chyhyryn nuclear power plant 4	Chyhyryn nuclear power plant	Cancelled	PWR	1,000	-
Crimean nuclear power plant 1	Crimean nuclear power plant	Cancelled	PWR	950	-
Crimean nuclear power plant 2	Crimean nuclear power plant	Cancelled	-	950	-
Crimean nuclear power plant 3	Crimean nuclear power plant	Cancelled	-	950	-
Crimean nuclear power plant 4	Crimean nuclear power plant	Cancelled	-	950	-
Kharkiv nuclear power plant 1	Kharkiv nuclear power plant	Cancelled	PWR	1,000	-
Kharkiv nuclear power plant 2	Kharkiv nuclear power plant	Cancelled	PWR	1,000	-
Odessa nuclear power plant 1	Odessa nuclear power plant	Cancelled	PWR	1,000	-
Odessa nuclear power plant 2	Odessa nuclear power plant	Cancelled	PWR	1,000	-
Rivne nuclear power plant 5	Rivne nuclear power plant	Shelved (inferred)	PWR	1,250	-
Rivne nuclear power plant SMR 1	Rivne nuclear power plant	Shelved (inferred)	-	160	-
Rivne nuclear power plant SMR 2	Rivne nuclear power plant	Shelved (inferred)	-	160	-
Rivne nuclear power plant SMR 3	Rivne nuclear power plant	Shelved (inferred)	-	160	-
Rivne nuclear power plant SMR 4	Rivne nuclear power plant	Shelved (inferred)	-	160	-
Rivne nuclear power plant SMR 5	Rivne nuclear power plant	Shelved (inferred)	-	160	-
Rivne nuclear power plant SMR 6	Rivne nuclear power plant	Shelved (inferred)	-	160	-
South Ukraine nuclear power plant 4	South Ukraine nuclear power plant	Shelved (inferred)	PWR	1,250	-
South Ukraine nuclear power plant 5	South Ukraine nuclear power plant	Shelved (inferred)	PWR	1,250	-

Fuel supply exposure

The fuel families Ukraine's operating reactors take, and the fabricators our sources document as able to make each. This is capability, not contracts: it does not say who actually supplies a given plant.