The Siberian Nuclear Power Plant (Sibirskaya Nuclear Power Plant) was built in the city of

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(then known as Tomsk-7),

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. It was the second nuclear power plant in the USSR and the first industrial-scale nuclear power plant in the country ( the first NPP, built in

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, had a capacity of only 6 MW). While the Siberian Nuclear Power Plant did produce electricity, the primary product was weapons-grade plutonium for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program.

References

A Brief History of: The Tomsk-7 is Nuclear Excursion (Short Documentary)
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