Programmes and agreements / prg-ec-nuclear-plan-modular-reactor

Ecuador nuclear power plan: first-stage 300 MW modular reactor (Ministry of Energy)

In February 2025 Ecuador's electricity vice-minister said the government's roadmap would first provide 300 MW of nuclear power through a modular reactor, later followed by a 1 GW plant, with a tender to select a builder planned for 2026. In December 2025 the ministry created a nuclear programme implementing organisation and set a horizon of about ten years for the first reactor (RNE1). No design, vendor, site or tender award has been announced.

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Type

National plan

Countries concerned

Ecuador

Participants and roles

• Government: Ministerio de Energía y Minas / Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (Ecuador)
• Government: Organismo de Implementación del Programa Nuclear (NEPIU)

Designs named

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Scale as stated

First stage: 300 MW of nuclear through a modular reactor, later a 1 GW plant (as stated in February 2025) · 1 unit stated

Announced or first reported

21 Feb 2025

Status

Active
Plan, tender was scheduled for 2026 but not verified as issued, 2029 first-power target superseded by a ~10-year horizon (Dec 2025)

Confidence

low

Last checked

2026-10-14 (record review date, not proof of current activity)

Related deployment projects

• No related deployment project is recorded here.

Sources

• Qué se sabe del plan para construir una planta nuclear en Ecuador que propone el Gobierno de Noboa (reputable_press, published 22 Feb 2025, accessed 2026-10-14)
• El Gobierno apunta a que Ecuador tenga su primer reactor nuclear en 10 años (reputable_press, published 27 Dec 2025, accessed 2026-10-14)
• WNA Emerging Nuclear Energy Countries profile listing (directory_or_aggregator, accessed 2026-10-06)