Russia plans to increase the share of nuclear electricity in its energy mix from about 20% today to 25% by 2045, with 16 new nuclear units in operation by 2035, state nuclear operator Rosenergoatom.

Rosenergoatom said planned units include:

• Two more VVER-TOI plants at Kursk 2 in western Russia (Kursk 2-3 and 2-4);

• Two VVER 1200 plants at Leningrad 2 near St Petersburg (Leningrad 2-3 and 2-4);

• Two VVER-TOI plants at Smolensk 2, southwest of Moscow near the border with Belarus (Smolensk 2-1 and 2-2);

• Four floating nuclear plants with Generation III+ RITM-200 plants at the Baimskaya minerals deposit in Chukotka, in the country’s far east;

• A land-based small modular reactor in Yakutia, also known as Sakha, an autonomous republic in Russia’s far northeast;

• The Brest-OD-300 pilot demonstration unit in central Russia;

• A VVER unit at Kola 2 in northern Russia (Kola 2-1);

• A BN-1200M sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor at Beloyarsk-5 near Yekaterinburg in central Russia.