Russia’s 1st floating nuclear power plant flipped the power switch today for the 1st time, delivering electricity from a boat off the coast of far eastern Russia
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St. Petersburg shipyard where it was built, before being loaded with nuclear fuel in Murmansk and towed to its current position in the Far East.Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant flipped the power switch on Thursday for the first time, delivering electricity from a boat off the coast of far eastern Russia., took 10 years to build at a cost of $232 million. The unit, with the electric generation capacity of roughly 70 megawatts, can power a city of 100,000 people.
Now it’s home to what Russia thinks may become a trend in fossil-free fuel—small, floating nuclear power plants. The new power plant will replace the technologically obsolete Bilibino nuclear power plant in the region, built in 1974 with the capacity to generate 48 megawatts. And a coal-fired power plant will also be shut down.Next year, the barge will be connected to the main city there, Pevek, in order to provide heat. The average high temperature there is -11 Fahrenheit in January and February. Fewer than 5,000 people live there.
Russia hopes the power plant and all the development and infrastructure maintenance that surround it will create conditions for accelerated socioeconomic development of Chukotka and will become one of the key infrastructure elements in Russia’s development goals for its northern sea route.
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