İğneada nuclear power plant — Turkey

İğneada nuclear power plant is a 5,300 MW nuclear power station in , Turkey. It ranks #2 of 502 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 0.0% of Turkey's electricity; the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_nuc_igneada_trkiy.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

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

In context: how this plant compares

Technically it is described as pressurized water reactor. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — 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 #1 largest nuclear power plant of 3 in Turkey by capacity.

Turkey has 3 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 14,700 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Trakya Emba power station · Coal · 1,200 MW ·
• Kiyikoy power station · Gas · 1,176 MW · Kırklareli
• Vize power station · Coal · 660 MW · Kırklareli
• Saray Tekirdağ power station · Coal · 300 MW · Tekirdağ
• Zeus power station · Biomass · 12 MW · Kirklareli
• Cerkezkoy Ugur power station · Gas · 60.2 MW · Çerkezköy/Tekirdağ

Location

Coordinates 41.8803, 27.9877 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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