Chapelcross et. al.

[Paul William Shafer <paulwilliam_s@YAHOO.COM>]

In reality the EBR-1 was the first nuclear reactor to

generate electricity for the lab in 1951. Its primary

purpose was to demonstrate breeding Pu. Obninsk

generated electricity but not "to a commerical or

public grid." I think I read somewhere that Obninsk's

main purpose was to produce Pu. 



Paul Shafer

--- Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> >Calder Hall was hailed as the world's first

> "commercial nuclear power 

> >plant" when it opened in 1956. In fact its primary

> purpose was to produce 

> >plutonium for the UK's nuclear weapons. The same

> was true of Chapelcross 

> >which opened in 1958.

> ----

> The APS-1 reactor at the Institute of Physics in

> Obninsk started as an 

> electricity generator (5 MWe) on June 27 1954 but

> since the town Obninsk was 

> not even on the maps until around 1968 a guess is

> that there were "side 

> activities" there as well. I was in Obninsk at a

> dosimetry meeting 2-3 years 

> ago.

> 

> A personal comment only,

> 

> Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com

> 

> 

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