Itu nuclear power plant is a 2,400 MW nuclear power station in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. It is operated by Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission; Rosatom [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 5.4 million homes (estimated). It ranks #4 of 69 Nigeria 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 Nigeria's electricity; the national grid averages 456 gCO₂/kWh (31.3% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_nuc_itu_niger.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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: Wikidata P2109; fuel: GEM GNPT
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 Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission; Rosatom [100%].
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 5.2°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).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #2 largest nuclear power plant of 2 in Nigeria by capacity.
Nigeria has 2 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 4,800 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 5.2016, 7.9861 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Itu nuclear power plant is a 2,400 MW nuclear power plant in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 5,406,171 homes (estimated).
Itu nuclear power plant is operated by Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission; Rosatom [100%].
