Bashkir nuclear power plant

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Bashkir nuclear power plant is a cancelled nuclear power plant in gorodskoy okrug Agidel', Bashkortostan, Russia.

Project Details

Table 1: Unit-level project details for Bashkir nuclear power plant

Unit name	Status	Cancellation year	Nameplate capacity	Reactor type	Model	Owner	Operator
1	Cancelled	1993	1255 MW	Pressurized water reactor	VVER V-510	Rosatom	Rosenergoatom
2	Cancelled	1993	1255 MW	Pressurized water reactor	VVER V-510	Rosatom	Rosenergoatom
3	Cancelled	1993	950 MW	Pressurized water reactor	unknown	Rosatom	Rosenergoatom
4	Cancelled	1993	950 MW	Pressurized water reactor	unknown	Rosatom	Rosenergoatom

Table 2: Additional unit-level capacity details for Bashkir nuclear power plant

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Unit name	Design net capacity	Thermal capacity
1	1115 MW	3300 MWt
2	1115 MW	3300 MWt

Location

Table 3: Unit-level location details for Bashkir nuclear power plant

Unit name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
1	gorodskoy okrug Agidel', Bashkortostan, Russia	55.8852, 53.9889 (exact)
2	gorodskoy okrug Agidel', Bashkortostan, Russia	55.8852, 53.9889 (exact)
3	gorodskoy okrug Agidel', Bashkortostan, Russia	55.8852, 53.9889 (exact)
4	gorodskoy okrug Agidel', Bashkortostan, Russia	55.8852, 53.9889 (exact)

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Background

The Bashkir nuclear power plant is an unfinished plant located near the city of Agidel in Bashkortostan.

Construction started in 1980 with 4 blocks totalling 4000MW of planned capacity. In 1990, under public pressure after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the construction of the Bashkir nuclear power plant was stopped.

Construction plans were revived in 2001 and in 2003, the feasibility study for the plant was transferred to Rosenergoatom.

However, the plant was absent from Russia's energy development programme up to 2035 issued in 2017. It is also absent from the programme update in December 2022.

A media report from April 2021 stated that "today, the unfinished Bashkir nuclear power plant still impresses with its scale, despite the fact that it was partially dismantled for building materials and scrap metal. Throughout the vast territory of the nuclear power plant, only the fire station and the boiler house work, which heats the city of Agidel. It is generally accepted that environmentalists played a decisive role in the fate of the plant as they opposed its construction."

A media article from July 2022 stated that the regional government of Bashkortostan was still studying the possibility of resuming construction. "The plans of the Ministry of Atomic Energy (State Corporation Rosatom) do not include the construction of a nuclear power plant here. Allegedly, there are some plans in 2035, although they are not confirmed. Therefore, our task today is to hold negotiations to resume construction and to do it not in 2035, but 10 years earlier, with a view for the territory to receive additional energy supply", said the representative of the regional government according to the the article. However, these plans did not appear substantiated.

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