Power stations that generate electricity by nuclear fission, including boiling water, pressurized water and other reactor designs, such as Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, Zaporizhzhia, Palo Verde, Vogtle Units 3 and 4 and Olkiluoto 3. Belongs here: a facility whose generating technology is a nuclear fission reactor in commercial or near-commercial operation. Does not belong here: an experimental fusion facility, which has no commercial fission reactor, grouped under Research and Experimental Facility.
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Nuclear power plant, History section, Obninsk sentence
On 27 June 1954, the world's first nuclear power station to generate electricity for a power grid, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, commenced operations
Nuclear power plant, lead section, steam cycle sentence
heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces electricity
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