On 26 June 1954 the reactor at Obninsk, southwest of Moscow, delivered electricity to a public grid, the first nuclear power station in the world. Its output was small, about five megawatts, but it opened the era of civilian nuclear energy, followed by Calder Hall in England in 1956 and Shippingport in the United States in 1957.
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The existing graphite-moderated channel-type plutonium production reactor was modified for heat and electricity generation and in June 1954 the world's first nuclear powered electricity generator began operation at the FEI in Obninsk.
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in June 1954 the world's first nuclear powered electricity generator began operation at the FEI in Obninsk.
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Connected to the power grid in June 1954, Obninsk was the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world, i.e. the first nuclear reactor that produced electricity industrially, albeit at small scale.
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