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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station
Two cooling towers at left, one largely obscured by the other, and the six reactor buildings viewed from the Nikopol shore. The large building between the cooling towers and the reactors, and the two tall smokestacks, are at the Zaporizhzhia thermal power station, beyond the nuclear plant.
Unit 1: 1 April 1980 Unit 2: 1 January 1981 Unit 3: 1 April 1982 Unit 4: 1 April 1983 Unit 5: 1 November 1985 Unit 6: 1 June 1986
Commission date
Unit 1: 25 December 1985 Unit 2: 15 February 1986 Unit 3: 5 March 1987 Unit 4: 14 April 1988 Unit 5: 27 October 1989 Unit 6: 17 September 1996
Owner(s)
Energoatom
Operator(s)
Energoatom (De jure) Rosatom (De facto)
Nuclear power station
Reactors
6
Reactor type
PWR
Reactor supplier
Atomstroyexport
Cooling towers
2
Cooling source
Kakhovka Reservoir
Thermal capacity
6 × 3000 MWth
Power generation
Units operational
6 × 950 MW
Make and model
6 × VVER-1000/320
Nameplate capacity
5700 MW
Capacity factor
58.68%
Annual net output
29,299 GWh (2016)
38,000 GWh
External links
Website
www.npp.zp.ua/en[dead link]
Commons
Related media on Commons
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The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station (Ukrainian: Запорізька атомна електростанція, romanized: Zaporiz'ka atomna elektrostantsiia) in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world. It has been under Russian control since 2022. It was built by the Soviet Union near the city of Enerhodar, on the southern shore of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper river. It is operated by Energoatom, who operate Ukraine's other three nuclear power stations.
An annotated Landsat 9 photograph of Zaporizhzia Nuclear Power Plant, February 2022
1–6.
Reactor units 1–6
7.
Electricity pylons
8.
Training building shelled
9.
Radioactive waste storage
10.
Cooling pond
11.
Cooling towers
12.
Kakhovka Reservoir
The plant has six VVER-1000 pressurized light water nuclear reactors (PWR), each fuelled with 235U (LEU)[1] and generating 950 MWe, for a total power output of 5,700 MWe.[2] The first five were successively brought online between 1985 and 1989, and the sixth was added in 1995. In 2020, the plant generated nearly half of the country's electricity derived from nuclear power,[3] and more than a fifth of total electricity generated in Ukraine.[4] The Zaporizhzhia thermal power station is nearby.
On 4 March 2022, the nuclear and thermal power stations were both captured by Russian forces during the Battle of Enerhodar of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5][6][7][8] As of 12 March 2022[update] the plant was controlled by the Russian company Rosatom.[9] Since its capture, the plant does not generate power and is mostly shut down.[10]
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