Dimitrovgrad nuclear power plant — Russia

Dimitrovgrad nuclear power plant is a 100 MW nuclear power station in Ulyanovsk, Russia. It ranks #394 of 678 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 GEM_nuc_dimitrovgrad_russi.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

capacity: GEM Global Nuclear Power Tracker September 2025 unit-status sum (cancelled); fuel: GEM GNPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 100 MW, Dimitrovgrad nuclear power plant is below the median nuclear plant in Russia (2,364 MW). Technically it is described as liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor. Its current lifecycle status is “Cancelled” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #25 largest nuclear power plant of 28 in Russia by capacity.

Russia has 28 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 60,908 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Ulyanovsk TPP-1 · Gas · 852 MW · Ulyanovsk
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• Togliatti · Coal · 620 MW · Samara
• Zhigulevskaya HPP · Hydro · 2,488 MW · Samara
• Samara TPP · Gas · 440 MW · Samara

Location

Coordinates 54.1866, 49.4793 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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