Rosatom Cites Leaders’ Support for Uzbekistan Nuclear Project

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — The development of Uzbekistan’s nuclear power plant project has been made possible by strong support from the highest political level in both Uzbekistan and Russia, Rosatom First Deputy Director General Andrey Petrov said at a ceremony marking the pouring of the first concrete for the future facility.

Petrov described the project as unique both for Uzbekistan and for Russia’s nuclear industry.

“It is a great honor for us that Russian technologies have been chosen to establish nuclear power generation in Uzbekistan. Such rapid progress in implementing the project would not have been possible without support at the highest level,” he said.

The Rosatom executive thanked Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin for their attention to the strategic energy project.

Cooperation between the two countries in the nuclear sector is based on an intergovernmental agreement signed in September 2018. The original agreement envisaged the construction of a nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan with two VVER-1200 reactor units.

A new phase of cooperation began in May 2024, when the parties signed a protocol expanding cooperation to include the construction of a small modular nuclear power plant in the Jizzakh region. That project envisaged six RITM-200N reactors with a combined capacity of 330 megawatts.

In March 2026, Uzbekistan’s nuclear energy agency Uzatom and Rosatom signed a supplementary agreement approving an integrated configuration for the future nuclear power complex. Under the updated design, the facility will include two large-capacity Generation III+ VVER-1000 reactor units and two small-capacity RITM-200N reactor units with a capacity of 55 megawatts each.

The integrated plant’s total installed capacity will exceed 2.1 gigawatts.

According to Rosatom, the project is the world’s first export contract for the construction of a nuclear power plant combining large-scale and small modular nuclear generation within a single complex.

Once it reaches its planned operating capacity, the station is expected to generate about 17.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually and meet up to 14% of Uzbekistan’s total electricity demand.