Nuclear power plant in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Approximate location 50.7543, 78.5322.
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Kurchatov nuclear power plant is a 2,400 MW nuclear power station in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 5.4 million homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 80 Kazakhstan power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, the national grid averages 805 gCO₂/kWh (14.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_nuc_kurchatov_kazak.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GNPT; fuel: GEM GNPT
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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.8°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 #2 largest nuclear power plant of 4 in Kazakhstan by capacity.
Kazakhstan has 4 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 9,690 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 50.7543, 78.5322 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kurchatov nuclear power plant is a 2,400 MW nuclear power plant in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 5,406,171 homes (estimated).
