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The first full-scale commercial nuclear power station was built by Westinghouse at Shippingport PA. It was just recently decommissioned after a long uneventful service life.

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The world's first-ever nuclear power station (formally called Atomic Power Station 1-Obninsk) became active on June 27, 1954 in Obninsk, outside Moscow of the former Soviet Union.

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