- The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station is located near the city of Enerhodar, Southeastern Ukraine, on the Kakhovka Reservoir’s southern shore on the River Dnieper. It is Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and is among the world’s top 10 largest.
- This nuclear power plant consists of 6 VVER-1000 pressurized light-water nuclear reactors (PWR) and all of them are fuelled with U235 (LEU) and generate 950 MWe, which gives a total of 5700 MWe power output.
- Between 1985 and 1989, the first five were brought online, and the sixth was added in 1995.
- Nearly half of the country’s electricity is derived from nuclear power from this plant.
- Zaporizhzhia thermal power station is located nearby.
- After a modernization work was completed on unit 3, in 2017, it enabled a 10-year life extension till 2027
- Unit 5’s modernization was finished in 2021, allowing for a 10-year life extension.
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