The first-ever atomic power station (Obninsk)

 museum, interesting place, nuclear power plant

It was launched on June 27, 1954 in the village of Obninskoye, Kaluga Region (now the city of Obninsk). It was equipped with one uranium-graphite channel reactor with a water coolant AM-1 (the abbreviation AM meant "peaceful atom") with a capacity of 5 MW. The ideas for the design of the station's core were proposed by I.V. Kurchatov and others. The first batch of fuel for the Obninsk NPP in the amount of 514 fuel rods was manufactured at the Machine-Building Plant (Elektrostal, Moscow Region). Many specialists from the Soviet Union took part in the construction of the station.
The Obninsk NPP reactor, in addition to generating energy, served as a base for experimental research and for the production of isotopes for the needs of medicine. The experience of operating the first, in fact, an experimental nuclear power plant fully confirmed the engineering solutions proposed by the nuclear industry specialists, which made it possible to start implementing a large-scale program for the construction of new nuclear power plants in the USSR.
At present the Obninsk NPP has been decommissioned. Its reactor was shut down on April 29, 2002, having successfully operated for almost 48 years. The plant was shut down solely for economic reasons, as it became more and more expensive to maintain it in a safe condition every year.
On the basis of the Obninsk NPP, a museum of nuclear energy was created.