Kursk is a 4,000 MW nuclear power station in Kursk, Russia. It is operated by JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 9,010,285 homes (estimated). It ranks #7 of 545 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 WRI1003744.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". All plants by this company →
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 51.7°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 #3 largest nuclear power plant of 10 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 10 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 28,168 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.675, 35.6056 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
