It should be noted that this May the total electric power output of the nuclear power plants has increased by over 6.06% compared to the same period of 2016 reaching the balance of 16.108 billion kilowatt-hours. The installed capacity utilization factor since early 2017 has reached 85.5%. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has approved a plan for the Russian NPPs to produce 199.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power in 2017. In 2016, the Russian NPPs have built up their joint output by almost one billion, up to 196.366 billion kilowatt-hours, thus surpassing the previous year’s record of 195.213 billion kilowatt-hours.