Novovoronezh nuclear power plant

Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Novovoronezh nuclear power plant is the 5th largest of 10 operating nuclear sites in Russia, holding 13% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 28th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating units started up between 1973 and 2019; the median unit is 27.0 years old, younger than the median of 37.5 in Russia.

The 7 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 4.5 to 9.8 years (median 6.3) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1970s is 5.4 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Kursk nuclear power plant (254 km).

2 operating units are rated differently now from their design net capacities: Unit 2-1 -1.3% and Unit 2-2 -1.2%.

The tracker lists a planned retirement year, a forecast and not a decision on record, for 2 operating units: Unit 1-4 (2032) and Unit 1-5 (2040).

Build time by unit

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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.