Nuclear power in Ukraine

There are four nuclear power plants in Ukraine but one of them, Zaporizhzhia, is now occupied and claimed by Russia and shutdown. The 15 reactors total installed capacity is over 13 GWe. Energoatom, a Ukrainian state enterprise, is the operator. Ukraine is one of the very few countries where nuclear power supplies most of its electricity.

Zaporizhzhia is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, and Russia wants Rosatom to restart it.

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster in northern Ukraine was the world's most severe nuclear accident to date. It occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on the banks of the Dnieper.

Lack of coal for Ukraine's coal-fired power stations due to the war in Donbas and a shut down of one of the six reactors of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant led to rolling blackouts throughout the country in December 2014. Due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, the nuclear power plant has been damaged.

Ukraine relies to a large extent on nuclear power. The largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, is located in Ukraine. In 2006, the government planned to build 11 new reactors by the year 2030, which would have almost doubled the current amount of nuclear power capacity.