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First industrial-scale nuclear power plant built in the USSR
Siberian Nuclear Power Plant
Cooling towers of the Siberian Nuclear Power Plant
CountryRussia
LocationSeversk
Coordinates56°37′37″N 84°54′19″E / 56.62694°N 84.90528°E / 56.62694; 84.90528
StatusDecommissioned
Construction began1954
Commission dateDecember 1958
Decommission date2008
OwnerRosatom
OperatorEnergoatom
Nuclear power station
Reactor typeADE
Power generation
Units decommissionedI-1, EI-2, ADE-3, ADE-4, ADE-5
Nameplate capacity600 MW
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The Siberian Nuclear Power Plant (Sibirskaya Nuclear Power Plant) was built in the city of Seversk (then known as Tomsk-7), Tomsk Oblast. It was the second nuclear power plant in the USSR and the first industrial-scale nuclear power plant in the country (the first NPP, built in Obninsk, had a capacity of only 6 MW). While the Siberian Nuclear Power Plant did produce electricity, the primary product was weapons-grade plutonium for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program.

References

  1. Lowenhaupt, Henry S. "Somewhere in Siberia" (PDF). Somewhere in Siberia. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 14, 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
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