European Union electricity supply

Russia turned up at Geneva that same year of 1955 with more than hollow promises. Alongside our full-scale 4 swimming-poor nuclear reactor which we had flown to the Conference for exhibition, the young Russian scientists presented a model of her first "commercial power reactor which, they said, had been in operation for more than a year. Not far from Moscow it had fed 5000 kilowatts of electrical energy into farms, factories and homes on a modest experimental scale. The new Soviet Five Year Plan calls for the completion by 1960 of several atomic energy plants with a total capacity equal to that of the United States and England combined. These are to be built mainly in the European part of the Soviet Union where coal and other fuel are in short supply. 

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