Public hearings on the Uzbekistan nuclear plant project will take place held on December 23 in the Farish district of the Jizzakh province, the Atomic Energy Agency (Uzatom) under the Cabinet of Ministers said.

The project envisions the construction of a nuclear power plant consisting of VVER-1000 (large) and RITM-200N (small) reactors. It was previously reported that the facility would consist of two large and two small reactors.

The facility's capacity will be 2,110 MW, with annual electricity production after full commissioning expected to reach 16-17 billion kWh, contributing 12-15% to Uzbekistan's energy mix. The estimated service life is 60 years. Up to 13,000 new jobs are expected to be created during construction, and up to 2,000 during operation.

The project’s general contractor is Atomstroyexport, the engineering division of the Russian state corporation Rosatom.

Previously, Uzatom CEO Azim Akhmedkhadzhaev announced that the pouring of the first concrete was planned for the spring of 2026.

Uzbekistan and Russia signed an agreement for a nuclear power plant project in 2018. Initially, the plan was to build a plant with two large Russia-designed power units, each with an installed capacity of up to 1.2 GW. A site near Lake Tuzkan in the Jizzakh province was chosen as the site.

In May 2024, the parties decided to begin the project with a small-scale nuclear power plant using RITM-200 reactors, the same type used in nuclear icebreakers.

While, it was announced in September 2025 that the nuclear power plant would be a combined heat and power plant, comprising a large plant with two reactors with a total capacity of 2 GW and a small plant with two 110 MW reactors.