Sibirskaya Nuclear Power Plant

First industrial-scale nuclear power plant built in the USSR

56°37′37″N 84°54′19″E / 56.62694°N 84.90528°E / 56.62694; 84.90528StatusDecommissionedConstruction began1954Commission dateDecember 1958Decommission date2008Owner(s)RosatomOperator(s)EnergoatomNuclear power station Reactor typeADEPower generation Units decommissionedI-1, EI-2, ADE-3, ADE-4, ADE-5Nameplate capacity600 MWExternal linksCommonsRelated media on Commons

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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 ^[1]

References

^ 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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Reactors

Active	Akademik Lomonosov Balakovo Beloyarsk Bilibino Dimitrovgrad Kalinin Kola Kursk Leningrad Leningrad II Novovoronezh Novovoronezh II Rostov Smolensk
Under construction	Kursk II Seversk
Closed	Obninsk Siberian Troitsk
Canceled	Bashkir Crimean Gorky Kaliningrad Krasnodar Primorsk South Ural Tatar (Kama) Tver Volgograd Voronezh
Planned	Central Kola II Nizhny Novgorod Smolensk II