Everything about Russian Floating Nuclear Power Station totally explained
Floating nuclear power stations (
Russian term:
плавучая атомная теплоэлектростанция малой мощности,
АТЭС ММ) are vessels projected by the
Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency that present self-contained, low-capacity, floating
nuclear power plants, each powered by two modified
KLT-40 naval propulsion reactors.
The stations are to be mass-built at ship-building facilities and then towed to the destination point in coastal waters near a city, a town or an industrial enterprise. Each vessel would then provide up to 70
MW of electrical or 300MW of heat energy that are enough for a city with population of 200,000 people. It could also be modified as a desalination plant producing 240,000 cubic meters of fresh water a day.
Fuelling
The plant needs to be refuelled every three years while saving up to 200,000 metric tons of coal and 100,000 tons of fuel oil a year. The reactors are supposed to have a lifespan of 40 years. Every 12 years the whole plant will be towed home and overhauled at the wharf where it was constructed. The disposal of the nuclear waste will be organized by the manufacturer and supported by the infrastructure of the Russian nuclear industry. Thus, virtually no radiation traces are expected at the place where the power station produced its energy.
Russia does have 50 years of experience operating a fleet of
nuclear powered icebreakers that are also used for scientific and Arctic tourism expeditions. The Russians have commented that a
nuclear reactor that sinks, such as the similar reactor involved in the
Kursk explosion, can be raised and probably put back into operation. At this time it isn't known what, if any,
containment structure or associated missile shield will be built on the ship. The manufacturers believe that an airliner striking the ship wouldn't destroy the reactor. According to MosNews, a Russian news outlet, there's no way an airliner striking the ship would destroy the reactor.
The Lomonosov
On
April 15 2007 the construction of the first floating Nuclear Power Station,
Academician Lomonosov, started at the
Sevmash Submarine-Building Plant in
Severodvinsk. The celebrations were attended by the first deputy
prime minister of Russia,
Sergei Ivanov, and by the head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency,
Sergei Kiriyenko.
Academician Lomonosov Floating Power Plant is supposed to supply power to Severodvinsk town and SevMashZavod itself. It would also serve as a prototype and a demonstration model. It is planned to completed by
2010. By 2015 at least seven of the vessels are supposed to be built. Some of them are planned to be used in the Russian
Arctic, including at
Dudinka on the
Taymyr Peninsula,
Vilyuchinsk on the
Kamchatka Peninsula and
Pevek on the
Chukchi Peninsula,
[ but some are to be exported. According to Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency 15 countries have shown interest in hiring such a device.][Further Information]
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