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Beloyarsk nuclear power plant

Beloyarsk nuclear power plant is a nuclear power station in Russia with 2 operating units totalling 1,485 MW gross. The site has 6 units on record in total.

Operating1circle area ∝ site capacity Coastlines, borders and lakes: Natural Earth (1:10 million, public domain), which is generalised, so a coastal plant can sit a couple of kilometres off its true shoreline. Site positions: Global Nuclear Power Tracker.
Units on record
6
Operating
2
Operating capacity
1,485MW
Country

Units

UnitStatusTypeModelGross MWOnline
Unit 3 Operating FBR BN-600 600 1981
Unit 4 Operating FBR BN-800 885 2016
Unit 1 Retired LWGR AMB-100 108 1964
Unit 2 Retired LWGR AMB-200 160 1969
Unit 5 Pre-construction FBR BN-1200M 1,200 2034
Unit 6 Cancelled (inferred) FBR BN-1200 1,600 -

Unit by unit

Each unit's rating, type and milestone dates as recorded by the Global Nuclear Power Tracker, with any correction we made to it. A dash or "not disclosed" means the source does not give the value.

Beloyarsk nuclear power plant 3 Operating

Reactor typeFast reactor (FBR)
ModelBN-600
Size classLarge
Gross capacity600MW
Net capacity560MW
Thermal output1,470MWt
Enrichment15–20% fissile, or plutonium
NSSS vendorRosatom
OwnerRosatom100%
OperatorRosenergoatom
Construction start1 Jan 1969
First criticality26 Feb 1980
Grid connection8 Apr 1980
Commercial operation1 Nov 1981

Beloyarsk nuclear power plant 4 Operating

Reactor typeFast reactor (FBR)
ModelBN-800
Size classLarge
Gross capacity885MW
Net capacity820MW
Thermal output2,100MWt
Enrichment15–20% fissile, or plutonium
NSSS vendorRosatom
OwnerRosatom100%
OperatorRosenergoatom
Construction start18 Jul 2006
First criticality27 Jun 2014
Grid connection10 Dec 2015
Commercial operation31 Oct 2016

Beloyarsk nuclear power plant 1 Retired

Reactor typeLight water graphite reactor (LWGR)
ModelAMB-100
Size classSmall
Gross capacity108MW
Net capacity102MW
Thermal output286MWt
Enrichment2–2.6% U-235
NSSS vendornot on record
OwnerMinistry Of Medium Machine Building Of The USSR (Minsredmash)100%
OperatorRosenergoatom
Construction start1 Jun 1958
First criticality1 Sep 1963
Grid connection26 Apr 1964
Commercial operation26 Apr 1964
Permanent shutdown1 Jan 1983

Beloyarsk nuclear power plant 2 Retired

Reactor typeLight water graphite reactor (LWGR)
ModelAMB-200
Size classSmall
Gross capacity160MW
Net capacity146MW
Thermal output530MWt
Enrichment2–2.6% U-235
NSSS vendornot on record
OwnerMinistry Of Medium Machine Building Of The USSR (Minsredmash)100%
OperatorRosenergoatom
Construction start1 Jan 1962
First criticality10 Oct 1967
Grid connection29 Dec 1967
Commercial operation1 Dec 1969
Permanent shutdown1 Jan 1990

Beloyarsk nuclear power plant 5 Pre-construction

Reactor typeFast reactor (FBR)
ModelBN-1200M
Size classLarge
Gross capacity1,200MW
Net capacitynot disclosed
Thermal outputnot disclosed
Enrichment15–20% fissile, or plutonium
NSSS vendorRosatom
OwnerRosatom100%
OperatorRosenergoatom
Commercial operation1 Jan 2034

Beloyarsk nuclear power plant 6 Cancelled (inferred)

Reactor typeFast reactor (FBR)
ModelBN-1200
Size classLarge
Gross capacity1,600MW
Net capacitynot disclosed
Thermal outputnot disclosed
Enrichment15–20% fissile, or plutonium
NSSS vendorRosatom
Milestonesno dates on record

Beloyarsk nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Beloyarsk nuclear power plant is the 9th largest of 10 operating nuclear sites in Russia, holding 5% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 114th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating units started up between 1981 and 2016; the median unit is 27.5 years old, younger than the median of 37.5 in Russia.

The 4 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 5.9 to 11.3 years (median 7.7) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.

No other nuclear site with an exact position in this dataset lies within 300 km.

Build time by unit

UnitConstruction startGrid connectionYearsFleet median, same decade
Unit 1195819645.95.0 (1960s)
Unit 2196219676.05.0 (1960s)
Unit 31969198011.37.3 (1980s)
Unit 4200620159.45.9 (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.

Site detail
LocationSverdlovsk, Russia
Coordinates56.8417, 61.3225
Elevationabout 235 mabove sea level
SettingAbout 1,180 km from the sea
RegionEastern Europe
Units by status
Operating: 2
Retired: 2
Pre-construction: 1
Cancelled: 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 & operators
Owners
Ministry Of Medium Machine Building Of The USSR (Minsredmash)
Rosatom
Operators
Rosenergoatom

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