Bilibino is a 48 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 108,123 homes (estimated). It ranks #339 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". All plants by this company →
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 #10 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 68.0503, 166.5389 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
