The first nuclear power projects were started in the Soviet Union even before the end of the 1940s. In 1950 the decision was taken to construct the country's first nuclear power plant at Obninsk, based on the so-called channel-type, uranium-graphite design of reactor.
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Connected to the power grid in June 1954, Obninsk was the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world, i.e. the first nuclear reactor that produced ...
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The F-1 (from "First Physical Reactor") is a research reactor operated by the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, Russia. When started on December 25, 1946, ...
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May 2, 2024 · In 1964 the first two Soviet nuclear power plants were commissioned. A 100 MW boiling water graphite channel reactor began operating in ...
Written by the Associated Press, it reads that British atomic scientists have announced they are ready to begin building the world's first nuclear power station ...
On June 27, 1954 in Obninskoye village of Kaluga region, at the A. I. Laypunsky Physics and Energy Institute (Laboratory “B”) was launched the first nuclear ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Russia's first nuclear power plant, and the first in the world to produce electricity in 1954, was the 5 MWe Obninsk reactor. Russia's first ...