Barakah nuclear power plant

Barakah nuclear power plant in context

Barakah nuclear power plant is the only operating nuclear site in the United Arab Emirates on record, so it holds all of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 10th of 172 operating sites worldwide by gross capacity.

Its operating units started up between 2021 and 2024; the median unit is 3.5 years old, the same as the median in the United Arab Emirates.

The 4 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 8.0 to 8.6 years (median 8.3) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 2020s is 7.7 years.

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

3 operating units are rated differently now from their design net capacities: Unit 1 +2.1%, Unit 2 +2.1% and Unit 3 +2.1%.

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.