Siberian Nuclear Power Plant | |
Coordinates: | 56.6269°N 84.9053°W |
Country: | Russia |
Location: | Seversk |
Status: | Decommissioned |
Construction Began: | 1954 |
Commissioned: | December 1958 |
Decommissioned: | 2008 |
Owner: | Rosatom |
Operator: | Energoatom |
Ps Units Decommissioned: | I-1, EI-2, ADE-3, ADE-4, ADE-5 |
Np Reactor Type: | ADE |
Ps Electrical Capacity: | 600 |
The Siberian Nuclear Power Plant (Sibirskaya Nuclear Power Plant) was built in the city of Seversk (then known as Tomsk-7), Tomsk Oblast. It was the second nuclear power plant in the USSR and the first industrial-scale nuclear power plant in the country (the first NPP, built in Obninsk, had a capacity of only 6 MW). While the Siberian Nuclear Power Plant did produce electricity, the primary product was weapons-grade plutonium for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program.[1]