Bilibino is a 36 MW nuclear power plant in Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia. It is operated by JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 81k homes (estimated). It ranks #485 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1974, it is around 52 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 WRI1003671.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 36 MW for Bilibino nuclear power plant, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
Capacity claim grade: A2_MEDIUM_REVIEW - recommended action: manual_source_check - confidence: medium. This follows a claim-based data model: value + scope + source + confidence, rather than silently overwriting records.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000500258); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 36 MW, Bilibino is below the median nuclear plant in Russia (2,400 MW). Technically it is described as light water graphite reactor. Nuclear plants split uranium to raise steam with no direct CO₂; they run as steady baseload with very high capacity factors and the longest operating lifetimes of any thermal plant.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom".
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a polar tundra climate (Köppen ET) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 68.1°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 #27 largest nuclear power plant of 28 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 28 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 68,383 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 68.0503, 166.5389 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Bilibino is a 36 MW source-record nuclear power plant in Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia, commissioned in 1974.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 81,092 homes (estimated).
Bilibino is operated by JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom".
