The world's first floating nuclear reactor set sail on its maiden voyage from Russia bound for the Arctic far east.
Akademik Lomonosov was on Saturday April 28,2018 towed out of St Petersburg harbour where it was built, equipped with two nuclear reactors.
The
21,500-tonne ship will be pulled through the Baltic sea and around the
tip of Norway to Murmansk, a city of 300,000, to be loaded with fuel
From there it will continue on
to Chukotka, over the straight from Alaska, to power the port town
of Pevek and oil rigs when their reactor shuts down in 2019.
The
£70 million behemoth is 144m long 30m wide and 10m high, needs a crew
of 69 to operate it, and provides 70 megawatts of electricity or 300 of
heat.
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