Sibirskaya Nuclear Power Plant

Siberian Nuclear Power Plant

Cooling towers of the Siberian Nuclear Power Plant
Location of Siberian Nuclear Power Plant in Russia
Country Russia
Location Seversk
Coordinates 56°37′37″N 84°54′19″E / 56.62694°N 84.90528°E / 56.62694; 84.90528Coordinates: 56°37′37″N 84°54′19″E / 56.62694°N 84.90528°E / 56.62694; 84.90528
Status Decommissioned
Construction began 1954
Commission date December 1958
Decommission date 2008
Owner(s) Rosatom
Operator(s) Energoatom
Nuclear power station
Reactor type ADE
Power generation
Units decommissioned I-1, EI-2, ADE-3, ADE-4, ADE-5
Nameplate capacity 600 MW

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).


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