WORLD’S FIRST FLOATING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

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Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plant has reached its final destination in the country’s remote the Far East after a three-week, 5,000-kilometer journey.

• Russia’s world-first floating nuclear power station is designed to meet the energy needs of remote communities.
• Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear energy company, announced the arrival in the Arctic port town of Pevek of the nuclear power plant.

 

 

Highlights

• The nuclear plant has been named the Akademik Lomonosov after the 18th-century Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov.
• The station houses two 35-megawatt reactors, more in line with the power of nuclear-powered ice breakers than typical new-generation nuclear plants boasting nearer 1,000 MW capacity.
• The Akademik Lomonosov is to provide energy for around 100,000 people.
• It will also power oil platforms as Russia develops extraction of natural resources in a mineral-rich area whose eastern tip is a few dozen kilometres from Alaska.
• It is a small step towards sustainable development in the Arctic – but it is a giant step towards decarbonisation of remote and off-grid zones.
• It is also a turning point in the global development of small modular nuclear plants.

 

Criticism

Environmental groups led by Greenpeace Russia have, however, long criticised the project warning it will have “serious consequences” for a fragile ecosystem in case of storms or accidents.

 

Akademik Lomonosov

• The world’s first floating nuclear power plant, built at the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard in Saint Petersburg, Russia. This site, known as Akademik Lomonosov, is the property of the Russian nuclear operator Rosenergoatom.
• It contains two KLT-40C naval propulsion reactors with a 35 MWe capacity each.

 

Source: Indian Express

 

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