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Many advanced states, including the USA and China, have tried to build mobile marine nuclear reactors, but their attempts are not crowned with success.
It turns out that so far only Russia has managed to create a floating nuclear power plant, and today the 70-megawatt “Academician Lomonosov “is the only such vessel on the planet. “Nuclear Titanic,” as journalists called him, is currently left St. Petersburg and went to Murmansk to download radioactive fuel.
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From Murmansk, “Academician Lomonosov” will go to the Arctic to to warm the inhabitants of the Chukchi city of Pevek next year, as well as provide electricity to local oil rigs and a plant for desalination of water. Marine station will replace obsolete Chaun TPP and Bilibino NPP. Recall that electrification of remote Russian regions is one of the main factors holding back there development, along with inaccessibility and small population.
An ambitious project to create a floating nuclear power plant launched in Russia back in the mid-2000s, and in 2007 it finally began the construction of the “nuclear Titanic” (we hope that this name journalists will not become prophetic). According to various sources, the construction a unique vessel cost the state 16.5 billion rubles.
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The domestic company Rosatom originally intended load the reactor in St. Petersburg and then tow “Academician Lomonosov” directly to Pevek, however some Baltic states and environmental organizations came forward against, so the station will refuel in Murmansk. “Greenpeace” and other green defenders are sure this is a bad idea, and floating nuclear power plant, which also moves exclusively by the method towing poses a potential hazard to fragile nature of the Arctic Ocean. However, as independents write researchers and journalists, these are nothing more than regular attacks to Russia from the West, experiencing the present today degradation, and in everything, including the realities of assessment what is happening.
To clarify, the “Academician Lomonosov” has two 35 megawatts water-cooled nuclear reactors capable of providing up to 150 megawatts of thermal power. While the ship is being transported to Chukotka, Pevek itself is preparing a city port for nuclear Titanic. ”
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