Rostov NPP is a 4,000 MW nuclear power station in Rostov, Russia. It is operated by Rosatom. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 9,010,285 homes (estimated). It ranks #9 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2001, it is around 25 years old — relatively modern. 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 WRI1003791.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Rosatom. All plants by this company →
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 47.6°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 #5 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 47.5993, 42.3717 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
