Rosenergoatom said they had generated 196.37 TWh of electricity last year

The operator of Russia's 10 civilian nuclear power plants, Rosenergoatom, said yesterday they had generated 196.37 TWh of electricity last year, up from 195.21 TWh in 2015.

A subsidiary of state nuclear corporation ROSATOM, Rosenergoatom said its plants currently account for 18.6% of the country's total electricity production. Excluding Novovoronezh 6, a VVER-1200 that was connected to the grid last year, the ten plants consist of 34 units. Of these, 17 are VVERs (12 VVER-1000s and six VVER-440s); 15 are channel reactors (11 RMBK-1000s and four EGP-6 reactors); and two are fast neutron sodium-cooled reactors (BN-600 and BN-800).