Beloyarsk is a 1,480 MW nuclear power station in Sverdlovsk, Russia. It is operated by Rosatom. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,333,805 homes (estimated). It ranks #38 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1964, it is around 62 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 18.3% of Russia's electricity; the national grid averages 450 gCO₂/kWh (35.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1003666.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Rosatom. All plants by this company →
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 56.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #9 largest nuclear power plant of 10 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 10 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 28,168 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 56.8417, 61.3225 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
