Kursk nuclear power plant
Kursk nuclear power plant is a nuclear power station in Russia with 3 operating units totalling 3,255 MW gross. The site has 9 units on record in total.
Units
| Unit | Status | Type | Model | Gross MW | Online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1-3 | LWGR | RBMK-1000 | 1,000 | 1984 | |
| Unit 1-4 | LWGR | RBMK-1000 | 1,000 | 1986 | |
| Unit 2-1 | PWR | VVER V-510 | 1,255 | 2026 | |
| Unit 2-2 | Under construction | PWR | VVER V-510 | 1,255 | - |
| Unit 2-3 | Under construction | PWR | VVER-TOI | 1,255 | 2034 |
| Unit 1-1 | Retired | LWGR | RBMK-1000 | 1,000 | 1977 |
| Unit 1-2 | Retired | LWGR | RBMK-1000 | 1,000 | 1979 |
| Unit 1-5 | Cancelled | LWGR | RBMK-1000 | 1,100 | - |
| Unit 2-4 | Pre-construction | PWR | VVER-TOI | 1,255 | 2034 |
Kursk nuclear power plant in context
By gross operating capacity Kursk nuclear power plant is the 6th largest of 10 operating nuclear sites in Russia, holding 11% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 37th of 172 worldwide.
Its operating units started up between 1984 and 2026; the median unit is 40.0 years old, older than the median of 37.5 in Russia.
The 5 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 4.6 to 7.7 years (median 5.5) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.
The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (254 km).
Build time by unit
| Unit | Construction start | Grid connection | Years | Fleet median, same decade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1-1 | 1972 | 1976 | 4.6 | 5.4 (1970s) |
| Unit 1-2 | 1973 | 1979 | 6.1 | 5.4 (1970s) |
| Unit 1-3 | 1978 | 1983 | 5.5 | 7.3 (1980s) |
| Unit 1-4 | 1981 | 1985 | 4.6 | 7.3 (1980s) |
| Unit 2-1 | 2018 | 2025 | 7.7 | 7.7 (2020s) |
Nearest tracked nuclear sites
| Site | Country | Distance | Operating GW gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novovoronezh nuclear power plant | Russia | 254 km | 3.8 |
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.
Earthquakes nearby
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Magnitude 4.0 and above within 200 km of Kursk nuclear power plant's listed coordinates, past 30 days. This is distance, not shaking: it says nothing about damage or any change in operation. Every plant.
| Location | Kursk, Russia |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 51.6764, 35.6064 |
| Elevation | about 170 mabove sea level |
| Setting | About 530 km from the sea |
| Region | Eastern Europe |
| Units by status | Operating: 3 Under construction: 2 Retired: 2 Cancelled: 1 Pre-construction: 1 |
Elevation is read at the listed coordinates from a 30 m terrain model (SRTM 30 m). Two independent models differ by a median of 6 m across our plants and by up to about 40 m on steep or coastal ground, and a point on a shoreline can read as sea level. Distance to the water is measured to a generalised 1:10 million coastline, so a few kilometres or less is not resolved. This is context, not a design-basis or flood-risk figure.
| Owners | Rosatom |
|---|---|
| Operators | Rosenergoatom |
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Sources
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
- GEM.wiki entry (further reading) , CC BY-SA 4.0, linked, not quoted
How these sources are used, including the corrections applied on top of them and what is deliberately left blank · download the underlying data