The reactor will generate about 2,000 kilowatts of electricity, enough for a community of about 5,000 people.
A large reactor typically generates enough for 20 nuclear bombs each year.
As of June 2011, the reactor has only generated electricity for one hour since its first testing two decades prior.
Nuclear reactors, with Zippe-type centrifuges often making their uranium fuel, now generate about 16 percent of the world's electricity.
Upon completion, the first reactor would have generated over 15% of Cuba's energy demands.
With its vast appetite for energy, India badly wants nuclear reactors to generate power.
Which nuclear reactors generate the most power?
Iran says the reactor will generate power, but American intelligence analysts insist that it could be used to produce the core of a nuclear bomb.
In her case two nuclear reactors generated power by boiling water directly.
Only the fully loaded reactors of the main power units were still generating a residual level of sound.