The nuclear age quietly but fundamentally changed in June 1954. It marks the moment when fission first became, however tentatively, a civil energy technology. By John C.H. Lindberg
In June 1954, the atom entered the electricity system for the first time in the Obninsk, Russia, when the AM-1 reactor was connected to the grid (Source: Rosatom)
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