I'm reading
A Gentleman in Moscow, a novel by Amor Towles, and on page 412 Khrushev is hosting a dinner party on the eleventh of June 1954, at the
Metropol Hotel where
Minister Malyshev demonstrates that the
Death Star, er, the
Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant is now fully operational and is producing power for half of Moscow. The power plant is 60 miles southwest of Moscow.
On 29 April 2002 the reactor was stopped, and in 2009 a museum appeared on the territory of the station and the NPP was given the status of
Industry Memorial Complex -
Being Light