Kola NPP is a 1,760 MW nuclear power station in Murmansk, Russia. It is operated by JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4.0 million homes (estimated). It ranks #48 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1973, it is around 53 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 WRI1003733.
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: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000500204); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 1,760 MW, Kola NPP is below the median nuclear plant in Russia (2,400 MW). Technically it is described as pressurized water 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 subarctic (boreal) climate (Köppen Dfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 67.5°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 #18 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 67.4667, 32.4667 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kola NPP is a 1,760 MW source-record nuclear power plant in Murmansk, Russia, commissioned in 1973.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 3,964,525 homes (estimated).
Kola NPP is operated by JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom".
