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Atom Mirny: The World's First Civilian Nuclear Power Plant

  • 1. International Atomic Energy Agency, Division of Public Information, Vienna (Austria)

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The world's first civilian nuclear power plant was commissioned on June 27, 1954 in Obninsk, which was at that time in the Soviet Union, today, the Russian Federation. The Obninsk nuclear power plant generated electricity and supported experimental nuclear research. The Obninsk nuclear power plant operated without incident for 48 years. In September 2002, the last fuel subassembly was unloaded, when the Obninsk nuclear power plant set another first: it became the first nuclear power plant to be decommissioned in Russia.

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Journal Title
IAEA Bulletin (Online)
Journal Volume
54
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 5-7
ISSN
1564-2690