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It is about to be put in exercise the only floating nuclear power plant to the world
It will be used in order to produce electric power for the region of Chukotka, in the Russian Far East
August 23, 2019
The Akademik Lomonosov, the only currently existing floating nuclear power plant to the world, has sailed today from Murmansk in order to reach with a travel of 4.700 kilometers the port of Pevek, on the East Siberian Sea, where it will be used in order to produce electric power for the region of Chukotka. The ship, in a position to producing to energy for a city of 100 thousand inhabitants, will become the nuclear facility to north of the world more.
The Floating Nuclear Power Unit (FPU) Akademik Lomonosov, that it is constructed by the ship yard Baltic Shipyard of Saint Petersburg, is of property of the Rosatom Russian. The ship is long 144 meters and wide 30.
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