Russia's world first floating nuclear power station on Saturday completed a 5,000-kilometre (3,100-mile) Arctic transfer to the country's far east, the Rosatom nuclear agency said.

Floating nuclear power stations are vessels designed by Rosatom. The floating nuclear power plant (FNPP), named Akademic Lomonosov, was commissioned on Friday. Floating nuclear power plants are something Russia adds to the mix of new nuclear technologies. They are self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants. A nuclear FPU is equipped with two KLT-40S reactor systems (each with a 35 MWe capacity) similar to those used on icebreakers. The Akademik Lomonosov is carrying two 35-megawatt nuclear reactors to Russia's Arctic coast.

“Akademik Lomonosov” floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) is the world’s first mobile small-sized NPP that consists of a reactor vessel and a floating power unit (FPU). The floating nuclear power plant also features two KLT-40S reactors each with 35 megawatts in electric power. MH-1A was the first floating nuclear power station. Instead of thousands of megawatts seen in conventional plants on shore, the small modular reactors (SMRs) of floating nuke plants are typically around 300 MW or less. It completed a journey of some 9,000 kilometers from where it was constructed in a St. Petersburg shipyard. The work on such projects dates back to MH-1A in the United States, which was built … The stations are to be mass-produced at shipbuilding facilities and then towed to the destination ports of the cities and towns experiencing deficit of power due to industrialization. Environmentalists say the floating power plant is an inherent risk to the Arctic region.

Floating Nuclear Power Floating nuclear power is different from traditional nuclear power plants in two ways. The world’s first floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) docked at Pevek, Chukotka, in Russia’s remote Far East on 14 September. Designed by Russian nuclear scientists and naval architects, the vessel is 144 metres long and 30 metres wide, and … First, a floating nuclear reactor generally has a smaller capacity. The Akademik Lomonosov, Russia’s first Floating Nuclear Power Plant, is preparing for the long trip from Murmansk, in the far northwest of Russia, to the remote Arctic port of Pevek in the Chukotka region, Murmansk, Russia, 27 June 2019. The power plant is set to replace the Bilibino nuclear power plant on Chukotka, in the far east of Russia. Named Sturgis after General Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr., this pressurized water reactor built in a converted Liberty ship was part of a series of reactors in the US Army Nuclear Power Program, which aimed to develop small nuclear reactors to generate electrical and space-heating energy primarily at remote, relatively inaccessible sites. Andrei Petrov, the director of Rosenergoatom (the electric energy division of Russia’s state nuclear energy firm), signed the relevant decree.