Kola nuclear power plant

Kola nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Kola nuclear power plant is the 8th largest of 10 operating nuclear sites in Russia, holding 6% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 109th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating units started up between 1973 and 1984; the median unit is 47.5 years old, older than the median of 37.5 in Russia.

The 4 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 3.2 to 8.2 years (median 4.3) 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

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.