Armenian nuclear power plant

Armenian nuclear power plant in context

Armenian nuclear power plant is the only operating nuclear site in Armenia on record, so it holds all of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 168th of 172 operating sites worldwide by gross capacity.

Its operating unit started up in 1980; the unit is 46.0 years old.

The 2 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 4.5 to 7.5 years (median 6.0) 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.

The current net rating of Unit 2 differs from its design net capacity by +10.9% (375 MW at design, 416 MW now).

The tracker lists a planned retirement year, a forecast and not a decision on record, for 1 operating unit: Unit 2 (2036).

Build time by unit

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.