Russia

APS-1 at Obninsk was the worlds first nuclear power plant to deliver electricity to a grid, a 5 MWe graphite moderated channel rea...

Home of the Russian fast reactor program in the Urals. The BN-600 has run since 1980, among the longest serving fast reactors anyw...

The cradle of the VVER pressurized water line, hosting six successive design generations on one site since 1964. Units 6 and 7, VV...

The worlds first operational floating nuclear power plant, a barge with two KLT-40S icebreaker reactors totaling 70 MW plus distri...

The Soviet Arctic archipelago proving ground where Tsar Bomba, the 50 megaton largest bomb ever detonated, exploded over the Sukho...

The Urals complex that produced plutonium for the first Soviet bomb and still reprocesses spent fuel. The 1957 Kyshtym tank explos...

At Sosnovy Bor on the Gulf of Finland west of Saint Petersburg, the first plant to run RBMK-1000 reactors, starting in 1973. The o...