Qasr-Amra nuclear power plant is a 2,120 MW nuclear power station in Zarqa, Jordan. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4.8 million homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 38 Jordan 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 Jordan's electricity; the national grid averages 530 gCO₂/kWh (24.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_nuc_qasramra_jorda.
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
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.
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.8°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).
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 benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion 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.
Jordan has 1 nuclear power plant in this dataset, together about 2,120 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 31.8328, 36.8237 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Qasr-Amra nuclear power plant is a 2,120 MW nuclear power plant in Zarqa, Jordan.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 4,775,451 homes (estimated).
