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Monday, April 30, 2018

World's first floating nuclear reactor set sail on its maiden voyage from Russia

The world's first floating nuclear reactor set sail on its maiden voyage from Russia bound for the Arctic far east.
 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

 Russia has at least another seven floating nuclear reactors planned and China is working on building its own to launch in 2020.

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.

 Akademik Lomonosov was on Saturday towed out of St Petersburg harbour where it was built, equipped with two nuclear reactors

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.

They are considered very effective for generating electricity in remote areas and can be moved on if not required, or be used to power desalination plants

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