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Authors & Affiliations
Frolov Yu.V.
A.I. Leypunsky Institute for Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk, Russia
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Abstract
The conquest of the atom and the creation of the world's first nuclear power plant were prepared by the entire previous development of physics and became one of the most important achievements of domestic science in understanding the world and penetrating the secrets of nature. Scientists have come a long way from the fear that, by studying the atom, you can accidentally blow up the whole world, to the belief that a controlled chain reaction is feasible and can serve the benefit of man. The power of the First NPP, built on the site of Laboratory “B”, as the Physics and Power Engineering Institute in Obninsk was then called, was small even by the standards of that time. Nevertheless, for our country, its launch has become a unique technological achievement. The political significance of this event was also extraordinarily great - against the backdrop of an unbridled arms race that was gaining momentum, a country that had not yet recovered from a difficult war finds the strength not only to create nuclear weapons of deterrence, but also offers the world an alternative that has become a real example of the creative use of atomic energy. The article reveals one of the episodes in the history of the Soviet nuclear project, when, as a result of the search for ways to develop nuclear energy, the plant, originally conceived as a ship reactor, was implemented as the world's first nuclear power plant.
Keywords
nuclear energy, the world's first nuclear power plant, controlled chain reaction, technological achievement
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Problems of Atomic Science and Technology. Series: Nuclear and Reactor Constants, 2023, no. 2, 2:1
