The Ukrainian state-owned nuclear group Energoatom has announced that it has been granted land in the Cherkasy region of central Ukraine for the development of a new four-unit nuclear power plant. The Chyhyryn site, which was deemed the most suitable by Energoatom, would thus see the construction of a new nuclear plant comprising four AP-1000 reactors.
The site was originally chosen in the 1970s and 1980s for the building of a power plant, but work on the project was halted in 1989, following the Chernobyl accident. As a result, the newly constructed satellite town of Orbita, built for construction workers and future staff at the site, was largely abandoned. Energoatom’s new project could revive the Orbita town.
Ukraine has 15 nuclear reactors, including the six at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (6 GW), which have been under Russian military control since March 2022, South Ukraine (3 GW), Rovno (2.8 GW), and Khmelnitsky (2 GW). In 2022, nuclear represented 24% of Ukraine’s installed capacity with nearly 14 GW and 56% of its power generation with 63.5 TWh (against 86 TWh in 2021, before the war with Russia).
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