Rosatom Uzbekistan Plant Targets 2027 Start for Two 1,000 MW Reactors
Rosatom's CEO says construction of two 1,000 MW reactors at the Jizzakh site starts in 2027, lifting its Uzbekistan nuclear plan past 2,100 MWe, but no cost or licence dates are given.
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Rosatom's chief executive said construction of two 1,000 MW units is planned for 2027; two SMR units are already under construction, according to World Nuclear News.
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Rosatom plans to begin building two 1,000 MW reactor units at its Uzbekistan nuclear site in 2027, chief executive Alexey Likhachev said on 23 October during a visit to the site, according to World Nuclear News.
Two small modular reactors (SMRs) are already under construction at the site in the Jizzakh region. First concrete for their foundation slab was poured in May, and Rosatom expects the slab to be complete by the end of 2026. Engineering surveys and design refinements for the large units are under way, and the company said work should reach full scale next year.
Likhachev met Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev the same day. They discussed training of nuclear specialists and the residential development planned for the plant's workforce.
Why it matters for power supply
The project is large firm generation in a single location. A 2025 supplemental agreement changed the plan from a 330 MW plant of six small units to two large VVER-1000 units plus two SMRs, which World Nuclear News puts at more than 2,100 MWe in total. That is more than six times the capacity first contracted in May 2024. Nuclear output of this kind is steady baseload, the type of supply that data-center and industrial load growth depends on, though neither Rosatom nor WNN linked this plant to computing demand. Voltgrid News also covered another SMR project, an
