Russia Commissions World’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant

摘要

First-of-a-kind floating nuclear power plant (FNPP), the “Akademic Lomonosov,” has been fully commissioned in Pevek, Chukotka region in the Russian Far East. Andrei Petrov, director of Rosenergoatom, a division of Russian state nuclear entity Rosatom, signed the relevant decree on May 22. “Today we can consider the floating nuclear power plant construction project successfully completed. We finished our main task for this year—fully commissioned the FNPP in Pevek, Chukotka region. Today, it officially becomes the eleventh nuclear power plant in Russia and the northernmost one in the world,” Petrov noted. The FNPP started providing electricity to the isolated grid of the Chaun-Bilibino energy center of Chukotka on December 19, 2019, and has already generated over 47.3 million kWh. The plant will become the main energy source for Chukotka following closure of the three reactors at the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant.