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The nuclear power
Nuclear power

Nuclear power is any nuclear technology designed to extract usable energy from atomic nucleus via controlled nuclear reactions. The only method in use today is through nuclear fission, though other methods might one day include nuclear fusion and radioactive decay ....
 station Obninsk (Obninskaja AES) was a part of the science city Obninsk
Obninsk

Obninsk is a types of settlements in Russia in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located 102 km southwest of Moscow, on the main rail line between Moscow and Kiev....
, about 110 km southwest from Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. It was the first civilian nuclear power station in the world. The plant is also known under the name APS-1 Obninsk (Atomic Power Station 1 Obninsk).

reactor AM-1 ("???? ??????", Russian for Atom Mirny, or "peaceful atom"), had an electrical capacity of 6 MW but only produced around 5 MWe and thermal output was 30 MW, enough to power 2,000 modern homes (but the number would probably be different for 1950s Soviet Union).






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The nuclear power
Nuclear power

Nuclear power is any nuclear technology designed to extract usable energy from atomic nucleus via controlled nuclear reactions. The only method in use today is through nuclear fission, though other methods might one day include nuclear fusion and radioactive decay ....
 station Obninsk (Obninskaja AES) was a part of the science city Obninsk
Obninsk

Obninsk is a types of settlements in Russia in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located 102 km southwest of Moscow, on the main rail line between Moscow and Kiev....
, about 110 km southwest from Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. It was the first civilian nuclear power station in the world. The plant is also known under the name APS-1 Obninsk (Atomic Power Station 1 Obninsk).

Achievements

The reactor AM-1 ("???? ??????", Russian for Atom Mirny, or "peaceful atom"), had an electrical capacity of 6 MW but only produced around 5 MWe and thermal output was 30 MW, enough to power 2,000 modern homes (but the number would probably be different for 1950s Soviet Union). It was a prototype design that used a graphite moderator and water coolant. This reactor was the forerunner of the further developed RBMK
RBMK

RBMK is an acronym for the Russian reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy which means "High Power Channel Type Reactor", and describes a class of graphite moderated reactor nuclear reactor which was built in the Soviet Union for use in nuclear power plants to produce nuclear power from nuclear fuel....
 reactors.

History

Construction started on January 1, 1951, first startup was on June 1, 1954, and it was finally connected to the grid on June 26, 1954. For around 10 years, Obninsk remained the only nuclear power reactor in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
, but continued after others were started up as well until April 29, 2002 when it was finally shut down.

See also

  • Nuclear power in Russia
    Nuclear power in Russia

    In 2005 total electricity generated in nuclear power plants in Russia was 137 billion kWh, 16% of all generation. Installed capacity of Russian nuclear reactors stood at 21,244 MW....
  • Russia nuke plant map