President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today received the Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev to discuss construction of Uzbekistan’s first integrated nuclear power plant in Jizzakh province, the president’s press service said.
Work continues on the foundation of the first reactor building and on the plant’s design, it said. The sides also discussed training personnel, including at the Tashkent branch of the MEPhI National Research Nuclear University, and building a town for nuclear workers near the plant.
“Particular attention was paid to training qualified personnel for the industry,” the statement said.
Rosatom said construction of the town has begun and that it is designed for more than 30,000 specialists and their families. Likhachev visited the site on Oct. 22, Rosatom said. Concrete has been poured since June into the foundation slab of the first small-capacity unit, and the slab is due to be finished by the end of 2026, using 10,000 cubic meters of concrete.
The plant is being built in Forish district with Rosatom. It will have two VVER-1000 units of 1,000 MW each and two RITM-200N small units of 55 MW each, for 2,110 MW in total, and is expected to produce about 17.2 billion kWh a year.
The presidents of Uzbekistan and Russia marked the start of construction on June 4, 2026. Figures presented to the president on Sept. 2 put the project’s cost at $9.5 billion. The first small reactor is due to start up in 2029 and the first large unit in 2033, with completion in 2034-2035.
