Russian floating nuclear power station information
Model of the Project 20870 (back) with a desalination unit (front)
Class overview
Builders
Baltic Shipyard
Operators
Rosatom
Built
2007-2018
In service
19 December 2019-present
Planned
at least 7
Completed
1
Active
1
General characteristics
Type
Nuclear power station barge
Displacement
21,500 tonnes
Length
144.4 m (474 ft)
Beam
30 m (98 ft)
Height
10 m (33 ft)
Draught
5.6 m (18 ft)
Propulsion
none
Crew
69
Notes
2 modified KLT-40S nuclear reactors (icebreaker type) producing 70 MW electric or 300 MW heat power
Floating nuclear power stations (Russian: плавучая атомная теплоэлектростанция малой мощности, ПАТЭС ММ, lit. 'floating combined heat and power (CHP) low-power nuclear power plant') are vessels designed by Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation. They are self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants. Rosatom plans to mass-produce the stations at shipbuilding facilities and then tow them to ports near locations that require electricity.
The work on such a concept dates back to the MH-1A in the United States, which was built in the 1960s into the hull of a World War II Liberty Ship,[1] which was followed on much later in 2022 when the United States Department of Energy funded a three-year research study of offshore floating nuclear power generation.[2] The Rosatom project is the first floating nuclear power plant intended for mass production. The initial plan was to manufacture at least seven of the vessels by 2015.[3] On 14 September 2019, Russia’s first-floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, arrived to its permanent location in the Chukotka region.[4] It started operation on 19 December 2019.[5]
^"Floating Nuclear Plant Sturgis Dismantled". The Maritime Executive. 16 March 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
^"US begins study of floating nuclear plants". Nuclear Engineering International. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
^"Россия построит серию плавучих АЭС (Russia will build series of floating NPS)" (in Russian). Vzglyad. 15 April 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2008.
^"Russia's first sea-borne nuclear power plant arrives to its base". Reuters. 14 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
^"Russia connects floating plant to grid". World Nuclear News. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
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