The world's first
floating nuclear
power plant ship,
Akademik Lomonosov,
reached the port city
of Pevek in Russia’s
Chukotka on
September 14, 2019,
after covering a distance
of more than 4,700km
from Murmansk.
Russia’s first floating
nuclear power plant
has two KLT-40S reactor
units, that collectively
generate 70 MW of energy.
On December
19th, 2019,
the “Akademik
Lomonosov”
delivered its
first electricity
to the grid
in Pevek,
Arctic Russia.
The town’s
Christmas tree
was first
to be lighted
with electricity
produced by
the two reactors
on board the plant
that is moored
in the port.
The grid includes the
Chaun-Bilibino junction
in the Chukotka
Autonomous Okrug.
“Today a historic
event occurred,
the first connection
of the “generators of
“Akademik Lomonosov”
floating nuclear
heat- and electricity
nuclear power plant
were connected to the grid,”
Rosenergoatom Director
General Andrey Petrov said.
He said Pevek
is now the new
energy capital
of the region,
“a stronghold for
the development
of western Chukotka
and a key link
for the Northern
Sea Route.”
This important
engineering
breakthrough
could provide safe
and clean energy
to remote parts
of the planet,
at an attractive
price, when
compared with
a conventional
nuclear power
plant on land.
And a nuclear
power plant ship
can be constructed
much faster than
a conventional
nuclear plant
on land.