The Akademik Lomonosov has been operating in the Arctic since 2020.
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country is leading the development and operation of floating nuclear power plants, as can be seen in the Akademik Lomonosov, which is operating in the port of Pevek, in the Chukotka region, across from Alaska.
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“This is not just a project; the plant is operational. It is located in northern Russia, in the Arctic region, and has been operating and generating electricity since 2020,” he said on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Forum in Moscow.
Putin insisted that French, Japanese and U.S. companies say they are ready to develop plants like Russia’s, “but so far, no one has done anything.” By contrast, “Russia has an existing plant that has been built and is operating, and there is nothing like it anywhere in the world,” he reiterated.
Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) previously signed the first agreement with Indonesia to build two floating nuclear power plants abroad.
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Rosatom Director Alexei Likhachev said Moscow hopes the international business community will take note of “an infrastructure project in the field of nuclear energy capable of transforming a country’s economy.”
The world’s first floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, was built to withstand tsunamis and iceberg impacts. It has a capacity of 70 megawatts of electricity and 50 gigacalories of thermal energy, and can supply electricity and heat to a city of nearly 100,000 people.
The United States also launched a floating nuclear power plant, the Sturgis, in the Panama Canal in 1968, but decommissioned it in 1976 because of high maintenance costs.
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