Talk:Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant

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Dual use?[edit]

Was this a dual-use plant or really only made for 6MW of electricity? -- eiland (talk) 10:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

expand[edit]

this article is a stub, it really should be expanded. this plant was very important in nuclear history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.113.182.119 (talk) 00:12, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's right. But even the Russian article is rather short. -- Felix König ✉ 11:13, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Period of Operation[edit]

From Article [RBMK]: The first of these, AM-1 ("Атом Мирный", Atom Mirny, Russian for "peaceful atom") produced 5 MW of electricity (30 MW thermal) and delivered power to Obninsk from 1954 until 1959 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.2.246.197 (talk) 21:57, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Research nuclear power station ??[edit]

It was not research nuclear power station !! It was normally working nuclear plant staion which producting energy for population. And where is sources about the last changings in the article? 217.76.1.22 (talk) 06:04, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

At least the IAEO ([1] list the reactor as a power reactor. It is definitely not a research reactor (these are designed to irradiate samples), but a prototype reactor. Not a normal, 'commercial' power station, but still worth connecting it to the grid.--Ulrich67 (talk) 21:03, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Atom Mirnyi[edit]

It would be interesting to know, who coined the name for the reactor, and when. Eisenhower gave his "Atoms for Peace"-speech before the UN General Assembly in 1953, in which he proposed the establishment of something that eventually became IAEA. In 1955-08-08_22 there was the first "United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy" in Geneva. I would be surprised if the Russians didn't choose the name of the reactor specifically to chime in with the international sentiment of the time. The question is: Did they come up with "Atom Mirnyi" before or after Eisenhower? Before, specifically for, or after the international conference? --BjKa (talk) 08:12, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Some sources say the Soviet Union established a program similar to the American "Atoms for Peace" program. I guess it would be worth looking into that claim a little further... --BjKa (talk) 08:27, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

1959?[edit]

Please note that claim that reactor was detached from the grid in 1959 is not supported by any russian source. On contrary, the article of Kotchetkov on which this WP article mostly based, says: "The plant was in operation for 48 years ... Operation of the reactor was terminated on 29 April 2002, and preparation work on its decommissioning is now underway. "

The reference after the claim lead to the some activist group report, who, in turn, cited IAEA database, but this database entry for the Obninsk reactor does not support this claim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lqp (talk • contribs) 17:49, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]