Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (Ukrainian: Запорізька АЕС) is located in Enerhodar, Ukraine. It is one of the many super heritages left by the Soviet Union to Ukraine and one of the largest nuclear power plants in the world.
Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant has 6 VVER-1000 pressurized light water nuclear reactors, each generating 950 MW, for a total Installed capacity of 5,700 MW.
It is owned and operated by Energoatom, the Ukrainian state nuclear power generation company, and is one of four nuclear power plants in operation in Ukraine. It produces about half of the country’s nuclear power and accounts for more than 22% of the country’s total electricity generation.
The first five were successively brought online between 1985 and 1989, and the sixth was added in 1995. The plant generates nearly half of the country’s electricity derived from nuclear power, and more than a fifth of total electricity generated in Ukraine.
The Zaporizhia coal power station is also located nearby.
6 reactor construction and commission dates
Construction began
Unit 1: April 1, 1980
Unit 2: January 1, 1981
Unit 3: April 1, 1982
Unit 4: April 1, 1983
Unit 5: November 1, 1985
Unit 6: June 1, 1986
Commission date
Unit 1: December 25, 1985
Unit 2: February 15, 1986
Unit 3: March 5, 1987
Unit 4: April 14, 1988
Unit 5: October 27, 1989
Unit 6: September 17, 1996
In 2017 modernisation work was completed on unit 3, enabling a 10 year life-extension to 2027.
Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant Data
- Country
- Ukraine
- Region
- Eastern Europe
- Status
- In use
- Official name
- Запорізька АЕС
- Location
- Enerhodar, Ukraine
- Owner(s)
- Energoatom
- Official website
- npp.zp.ua
- Operator(s)
- Energoatom
- Began
- Apr-01, 1980
- Opened
- Dec-25, 1985
- Installed capacity
- 5700 MW
- Units operational
- 6 × 950 MW
- Reactor type
- PWR
- Reactor supplier
- Atomstroyexport
- Cooling source
- Kakhovka Reservoir
- Decommission date
- 2030
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