Siberian nuclear power plant — Russia

Siberian nuclear power plant is a retired nuclear power station in Tomsk, Russia. Its current lifecycle status is “Retired” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. It ranks #125 of 678 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 GEM_nuc_siberian_russi.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

capacity: GEM Global Nuclear Power Tracker September 2025 unit-status sum (retired); fuel: GEM GNPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 601 MW, Siberian nuclear power plant is below the median nuclear plant in Russia (2,364 MW). Technically it is described as light water graphite reactor. Its lifecycle status is Retired; it no longer generates electricity. 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #20 largest nuclear power plant of 28 in Russia by capacity.

Russia has 28 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 60,908 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Seversk nuclear power plant · Nuclear · 320 MW · Tomsk
• Siberian Chemical Combine (Seversk) · nuclear · n/a MW · Tomsk Oblast
• Severskaya CHP (CHP CHPP) · Coal · 699 MW · Tomsk
• Severskaya CHP power station · Gas · 300 MW · Tomsk
• Tomsk TPP-3 · Gas · 140 MW · Tomsk
• Tomsk TPP-1 · Gas · 14.7 MW · Tomsk

Location

Coordinates 56.6463, 84.9127 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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