GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Russia’s first nuclear power plant, and the first in the world to produce electricity in 1954, was the 5 MWe Obninsk reactor. Russia’s first two commercial-scale nuclear power plants started up in 1963-64, then in 1971-73 the first of today’s production models were commissioned.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first nuclear reactor to produce electricity (albeit a trivial amount) was the small Experimental Breeder reactor (EBR-1) designed and operated by Argonne National Laboratory and sited in Idaho, USA. The reactor started up in December 1951.

Detailed explanation-3: -While EBR-I is known as the first to produce usable electricity, other reactors built on its success.

Detailed explanation-4: -1954: The first nuclear power plant to be connected to an external grid goes operational in Obninsk, outside of Moscow.

Detailed explanation-5: -1954: The world’s first nuclear power plant becomes operational in Obninsk, outside of Moscow. The nuclear reactor, used to generate electricity, heralded Obninsk’s new role as a major Soviet scientific city, a status it retains in the Russian Federation where it carries the sobriquet of First Russian Science City.