2025-10-03 06:25:00
RUSSIAN NUCLEAR FOR UZBEKISTAN
WNN - 29 September 2025 - Uzbekistan plans two VVER-1000s and two SMRs
An agreement to expand the proposed new nuclear plant in Uzbekistan to include two gigawatt units and two RITM-200N small modular reactors was signed at the World Atomic Week International Forum held in Moscow.
More than 20,000 people from 100+ countries attended the four-day gathering in Russia. As part of it, the Uzbekistan agreement was signed by Andrey Rozhdestvin, Director General of Rosatom Energy Projects Company, and Abdujamil Kalmuratov, Head of the Directorate for the Construction of a Nuclear Power Plant State Enterprise.
The two sides agreed a supplement to the Agreement on Key Terms for Project Implementation which sees them agree that the project - which had been planned to feature up to six small modular reactors (SMRs) - will now have its capacity increased and feature two VVER-1000 units and two 55 MW SMRs. They also signed an agreement covering the key terms for future fuel supply contracts.
Azim Akhmedkhadjaev, Director of Uzatom, said: "In the very heart of Uzbekistan, in the Jizzah region, we are creating an unprecedented energy project. By becoming pioneers in the development of Central Asia's nuclear energy, we are not just building the first station in the region - we are the first to create an innovative solution for the future. Our project is a bold combination of advanced small modular reactor technologies and the time-tested solutions of traditional high-capacity nuclear power."
Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General, said the "signing marks a new stage in the development of relations between Rosatom and Uzbekistan … Uzbekistan will become the first country in the world to build an integrated nuclear power plant, where both a modern small-scale nuclear power plant and a large-scale nuclear power plant will be operated simultaneously on a single site".
Uzbekistan says that it aims to have completed the design for the SMR project by the end of this year so that the "main phase of its implementation can begin in 2026".
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