First Deputy General Director of the Rosenergoatom Concern for NPP Operation Alexander Shutikov said that Rosatom plans to build in Siberia, the Urals and the Far East power units of nuclear power plants with an average capacity of 600 MW. He spoke about this in an interview with Energetic People magazine.
“Given the state of the network infrastructure in these regions, we will need blocks with a unit capacity of not 1200 MW, as in the European part of Russia, but 600 MW,” Shutikov said.
Plans to build 12 nuclear power units in Russia by 2035 have already been approved, and another 12 are under discussion by 2045. Moreover, there will be a gradual shift in the geography of the construction of nuclear blocks, from the center of Russia to the Urals, the Far East, Siberia and partly to the south. According to the plans, the share of nuclear production in Russia should be increased from the current 20 percent to 25 percent by 2045.
