The first steps of nuclear power in the 1940s and 1950s, including the first controlled chain reaction at Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear plant to send electricity to a grid at Obninsk and the first commercial-scale station at Calder Hall. A milestone belongs here when its cited article describes a first in nuclear power. It excludes later nuclear accidents, which have their own group in the period of safety reckoning.
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Wikipedia: Chicago Pile-1
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On 2 December 1942, the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi.
Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia
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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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