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Russian NPPs exceed electricity generation plan by 7.8% since year start — Rosatom

TASS · 🇷🇺 public Russia · · 99 words
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What to know about Russian NPPs exceed electricity generation plan by 7.8% since year start — Rosatom

Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Rosatom, stated that Russian nuclear power plants are operating at full capacity and exceeding electricity generation forecasts by 7.8% despite a current heatwave.

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What happened

Russian nuclear power plants are reliably coping with the ongoing heatwave, exceeding the country's consolidated electricity forecast by 7.8% since the beginning of the year, Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Rosatom, told the industry publication "Strana Rosatom."…

Why it matters

Total generation since the start of the year has already reached 129.6 billion kWh," Likhachev said.

Common ground

He added that despite the abnormally hot weather, the plants continue to operate reliably and safely at 100% of their rated capacity.

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Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Rosatom, stated that Russian nuclear power plants are operating at full capacity and exceeding electricity generation forecasts by 7.8% despite a current heatwave.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Total generation since the start of the year has already reached 129.6 billion kWh”
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The evidence provided is completely irrelevant to the claim. It contains information about TotalEnergies (a French company), Total Wireless, Total Wine & More, and general Russian demographics, but no data on electricity generation figures (129.6 billion kWh) for Russian nuclear plants.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia has an estimated population of 146.0 million as of 1 January 2025, down from 147.2 million recorded in the 2021 census. It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. W…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and is one of the seven supermajor oil companies. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TotalEnergies
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Claim 2: “the plants continue to operate reliably and safely at 100% of their rated capacity”
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The evidence provided consists of general definitions of nuclear power plants and global statistics from the World Nuclear Association. There is no specific information regarding the current operational capacity or safety status of Russian nuclear power plants.
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web search NEUTRAL — A nuclear power plant, also known as a nuclear power station, nuclear generating station or atomic power station is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant
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web search NEUTRAL — The first commercial nuclear power stations started operation in the 1950s. Nuclear energy now provides about 9% of the world's electricity from about 440 power reactors.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu…
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web search NEUTRAL — While the capital costs of a nuclear power plant (typically about 60 percent of the total cost) outweigh its operating costs, reductions in operating costs should also be pursued so as to reduce the o…
https://thebulletin.org/2019/06/why-nuclear-power-plants-cos…
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Claim 3: “Russian nuclear power plants... exceeding the country's consolidated electricity forecast by 7.8% since the beginning of the year”
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The provided evidence includes general information about nuclear power globally, Czech and Hungarian power plants, and solar/wind power in an unspecified region, but contains no data regarding Russian nuclear power plant electricity forecasts or a 7.8% exceedance.
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web search NEUTRAL — The first commercial nuclear power stations started operation in the 1950s. Nuclear energy now provides about 9% of the world's electricity from about 440 power reactors.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu…
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web search NEUTRAL — The nuclear power plant is now gradually increasing its output again. Czech nuclear power plants are not threatened by drought. Like a number of other countries, Hungary has been grappling with extrem…
https://oenergetice.cz/en/energy-weekly/top-10-energy-storie…
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web search NEUTRAL — Wind power plants generated 179,742 MWh of electricity in the first seven months of this year, which is 48.5% more than in the corresponding period of last year.
https://en.bb.lv/article/business/2026/08/17/more-electricit…
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