Atucha nuclear power plant

Atucha nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Atucha nuclear power plant is the 1st largest of 2 operating nuclear sites in Argentina, holding 63% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 138th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating units started up between 1974 and 2016; the median unit is 31.0 years old, younger than the median of 42.0 in Argentina.

The 2 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 5.8 to 32.9 years (median 19.4) 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 +6.6% and Unit 2 +0.1%.

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.