South Ukraine nuclear power plant

South Ukraine nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity South Ukraine nuclear power plant is the 2nd largest of 4 operating nuclear sites in Ukraine, holding 22% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 40th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating units started up between 1983 and 1989; the median unit is 41.0 years old, older than the median of 39.0 in Ukraine.

The 3 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 3.5 to 6.4 years (median 4.9) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (254 km).

The tracker lists a planned retirement year, a forecast and not a decision on record, for 1 operating unit: Unit 1 (2033).

Build time by unit

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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.