Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant
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Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant was built in the "Science City" of Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, about 110 km (68 mi) southwest of Moscow, Soviet Union. 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 electricity industrially, albeit at small scale. It was located at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering. The plant is also known as APS-1 Obninsk. It remained in operation between 1954 and 2002. Its production of electricity for the grid ceased in 2002; thereafter it functioned as a research and isotope production plant only.
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Earlier and later events nearby
- 1812Battle of Borodino
- 1941–1942Battle of Moscow
- 1943Battle of Kursk
- 1954Obninsk Nuclear Power PlantThis page
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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