"Imagine a massive nuclear power plant. Now picture that massive power plant floating out at sea. And then you have the Akademik Lomonosov.
The Akademik Lomonosov is precisely that, a floating nuclear power plant, run by the Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation, or Rosatom, as it is more easily abbreviated.
The Akademik Lomonosov is the first of its kind to start work anywhere in the world.
And it has quite some power behind it.
Equipped with two KLT-40S reactor units, each able to generate 35 megawatt of power, it has some power behind it. With this power wattage it could essentially provide enough electricity to power a town of up to 100,000 people. "
The "Akademik Lomonosov" cost $232 million to build, and can generate 70 MW of power."
By contrast, the smallest land-based reactor in the US (the R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, built in 1966) cost $346 million (in 2007 dollars) and can generate 582 MW.
The smallest commercial reactor in the world is the EGP-6, which can generate 12 MW. There are 4 EGP-6 reactors at the Bilibino nuclear power plant, which will be shutdown and replaced by the Akademik Lomonosov in 2021.
https://interestingengineering.com/worlds-first-floating-nuclear-power-plant-starts-work-in-russia
https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2016-05-russias-bilibin-nuclear-station-shutting-down-reactors-to-make-way-for-floating-nuclear-plant
The Akademik Lomonosov is precisely that, a floating nuclear power plant, run by the Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation, or Rosatom, as it is more easily abbreviated.
The Akademik Lomonosov is the first of its kind to start work anywhere in the world.
And it has quite some power behind it.
Equipped with two KLT-40S reactor units, each able to generate 35 megawatt of power, it has some power behind it. With this power wattage it could essentially provide enough electricity to power a town of up to 100,000 people. "
The "Akademik Lomonosov" cost $232 million to build, and can generate 70 MW of power."
By contrast, the smallest land-based reactor in the US (the R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, built in 1966) cost $346 million (in 2007 dollars) and can generate 582 MW.
The smallest commercial reactor in the world is the EGP-6, which can generate 12 MW. There are 4 EGP-6 reactors at the Bilibino nuclear power plant, which will be shutdown and replaced by the Akademik Lomonosov in 2021.
https://interestingengineering.com/worlds-first-floating-nuclear-power-plant-starts-work-in-russia
https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2016-05-russias-bilibin-nuclear-station-shutting-down-reactors-to-make-way-for-floating-nuclear-plant