Russian floating nuclear power station

Floating nuclear power stations are vessels designed by <a href="/facts/Rosatom/lknBlYxp">Rosatom</a>, the <a href="/facts/Russia/jfkCwyxn">Russian</a> <a href="/facts/State_corporation_(Russia)/X1E8WCC2">state-owned</a> nuclear energy corporation. They are self-contained, low-capacity, <a href="/facts/Floating_nuclear_power_plant/I6odeCFT">floating nuclear power plants</a>. Rosatom plans to mass-produce the stations at <a href="/facts/Shipbuilding/XLy9lj1W">shipbuilding</a> facilities and then tow them to ports near locations that require electricity.
The work on such a concept dates back to the <a href="/facts/MH-1A/oNBepHD0">MH-1A</a> in the United States, which was built in the 1960s into the hull of a World War II <a href="/facts/Liberty_Ship/JuXDDY97">Liberty Ship</a>, which was followed on much later in 2022 when the <a href="/facts/United_States_Department_of_Energy/PRp6Cz8g">United States Department of Energy</a> funded a three-year research study of offshore floating nuclear power generation. The Rosatom project is the first floating nuclear power plant intended for mass production. The initial plan was to manufacture at least seven of the vessels by 2015. On 14 September 2019, Russia’s first-floating nuclear power plant, <a href="/facts/Akademik_Lomonosov/5AKbaCnl">Akademik Lomonosov</a>, arrived to its permanent location in the <a href="/facts/Chukotka_Autonomous_Okrug/0NfWGuRI">Chukotka region</a>. It started operation on 19 December 2019.

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Russian floating nuclear power station