The world’s first floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) docked at Pevek, Chukotka, in Russia’s remote Far East on 14 September. It completed a journey of some 9,000 kilometers from where it was constructed in a St. Petersburg shipyard. First, it was towed to the city of Murmansk, where its nuclear fuel was loaded, and from there took the North Sea Route to the other side of Russia’s Arctic coast.
The FNPP will replace an aging land-based nuclear plant and a brown coal-fired plant, reducing some 50,000 tons of CO2 emissions a year, according to Rosatom, the project’s creator and Russia’s state nuclear corporation. The reactor is slated to begin operations this December.
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