Rostov nuclear power plant
Rostov nuclear power plant is a nuclear power station in Russia with 4 operating units totalling 4,071 MW gross. The site has 4 units on record in total.
Units
| Unit | Status | Type | Model | Gross MW | Online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 | PWR | VVER V-320 | 1,041 | 2001 | |
| Unit 2 | PWR | VVER V-320 | 1,000 | 2010 | |
| Unit 3 | PWR | VVER V-320 | 1,000 | 2015 | |
| Unit 4 | PWR | VVER V-320 | 1,030 | 2018 |
Rostov nuclear power plant in context
By gross operating capacity Rostov nuclear power plant is the 2nd largest of 10 operating nuclear sites in Russia, holding 14% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 21st of 172 worldwide.
Its operating units started up between 2001 and 2018; the median unit is 13.5 years old, younger than the median of 37.5 in Russia.
The 4 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 5.3 to 26.9 years (median 13.6) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 2010s is 5.9 years.
No other nuclear site with an exact position in this dataset lies within 300 km.
2 operating units are rated differently now from their design net capacities: Unit 1 +4.1% and Unit 4 +3.1%.
Build time by unit
| Unit | Construction start | Grid connection | Years | Fleet median, same decade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 | 1981 | 2001 | 19.6 | 6.8 (2000s) |
| Unit 2 | 1983 | 2010 | 26.9 | 5.9 (2010s) |
| Unit 3 | 2009 | 2014 | 5.3 | 5.9 (2010s) |
| Unit 4 | 2010 | 2018 | 7.6 | 5.9 (2010s) |
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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| Time (UTC) | Mag | Depth | Epicentre | Distance |
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Magnitude 4.0 and above within 200 km of Rostov 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 | Rostov, Russia |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 47.6012, 42.3677 |
| Elevation | about 40 mabove sea level |
| Setting | On the shore of a large lake, 1 km from the water |
| Region | Eastern Europe |
| Units by status | Operating: 4 |
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