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Ukraine
Abandoned Constructions
6
Operating
9
Long-Term Outage
6
Closed
4
Number of Reactors
(as of August 2026)
37.2
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of August 2026)
54.8%
Increase
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2025)
WNISR
in the Media –
16 December 2025
The Kyiv Independent (Ukraine)
Explainer: Why Russia’s nuclear industry has escaped major sanctions
Since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has repeatedly threatened the use of atomic weapons, yet its much-prized nuclear industry has faced little in the way of meaningful sanctions. by Toby Woodall • 12 December 2025 Russia’s state atomic corporation, Rosatom, is a key part of the country’s military-industrial complex — and is increasingly expanding its reach beyond nuclear weapons. By far the world’s largest exporter of reactors and enriched uranium, it is a (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
30 March 2025
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Ukraine Weighs
US
Presence At Nuclear Plants (
US
)
The
US
could have boots on the ground in Ukraine — though not in the way many might expect. by Rostyslav Khotin • 23 March 2025 During a recent phone call between
US
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, where Ukraine agreed to pause attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure for 30 days, the idea emerged of establishing a
US
presence at Ukrainian nuclear power plants. Zelenskyy said that in the conversation with Trump, he discussed the possibility of
US
(…)
WNISR
in the Media –
22 August 2022
Reuters (
UK
)
Ukraine, Russia blame each other for nuclear plant shelling
• Experts fear attack could hit reactor, spent fuel pools • Towns on opposite bank under Russian bombardment • Ukraine says it hit ammunition depot, supply lines in range By Natalia Zinets Published 13 August 2022
KYIV
, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Ukraine and Russia accused each other on Friday of risking catastrophe by shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces in a region expected to become one of the next big front lines of the war. Western countries have (…)
WNISR
in the Media –
22 August 2022 [de]
Der Tagesspiegel (Germany)
Explosive Lage
Die ukrainische Atomenergiebehörde Energoatom hat eine alarmierende Botschaft erhalten. Sie sei von dem russischen Generalmajor Waleri Wassiljew informiert worden, heißt es in einer Mitteilung aus Kiew, dass wichtige Anlagen des Atomkraftwerkes Saporischschja vermint seien. Wassiljew ist der russische Kommandeur in dem besetzten Werk. Er schrieb: „Der Feind weiß, dieses Kraftwerk ist entweder russisch oder es ist gar nicht.“ Unverholen droht der General damit, das Kernkraftwerk bei einer (…)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).