Site construction started in about 1972. Due to the Arab oil embargo in 1973, construction was halted in 1974 until about 1979. Unit 1 was placed in commercial operation in 1985. Unit 2 was placed in commercial operation in 1989.
To produce electricity. See link below
The first nuclear power plant ever built is in 1954
The first commercial nuclear power plant in the US was built in 1957 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. The first commercial nuclear power plant in the world was built in 1956 in Calder Hill, UK.
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Nothing happens in the nuclear plant in Bataan. This plant was built but never operated.
yes 1 plant Koeberg built in the 80s,the only nuclear plant in Africa.
Sometime in the 1970's.
The first ever Nuclear Power Plant was built 1954, at Obninsk in the former USSR. It produced 5 MW electric to the power grid. The first commercial nuclear power plant was Calder Hall, in Sellafield, England, built in 1956, producing 50 MW - later, 200 MW. The first US nuclear power plant was Shippingport Pennsylvania, in 1957, producing 60 MW.
The Obninsk Power Plant, which is located in Obninsk, Russia. It was first built in 1954.
The first nuclear power plant ever built was the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant. Located in Obninsk, this plant is situated south of Moscow and was operational starting on June 1, 1954.
The last plant built in the US began construction in 1977. That's the "River Bend" plant in Lousiana.
The world's first nuclear power plant was built in Obninsk, Russia, in Jun 26, 1954, by Nikolay Dollezhal and Igor Kurchatov.