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title: ""Imagine a massive nuclear power plant. Now picture that massive…"
date: 2019-06-27
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# "Imagine a massive nuclear power plant. Now picture that massive…

*June 27, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://interestingengineering.com/worlds-first-floating-nuclear-power-plant-starts-work-in-russia?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Jun27](https://interestingengineering.com/worlds-first-floating-nuclear-power-plant-starts-work-in-russia?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Jun27){target="_blank"}
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\"Imagine a massive nuclear power plant. Now picture that massive power plant floating out at sea. And then you have the Akademik Lomonosov.\
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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.\
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The Akademik Lomonosov is the first of its kind to start work anywhere in the world.\
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And it has quite some power behind it.\
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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. \"\
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The \"Akademik Lomonosov\" cost \$232 million to build, and can generate 70 MW of power.\"\
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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.\
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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.\
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[https://interestingengineering.com/worlds-first-floating-nuclear-power-plant-starts-work-in-russia](https://interestingengineering.com/worlds-first-floating-nuclear-power-plant-starts-work-in-russia){target="_blank"}\
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[https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2016-05-russias-bilibin-nuclear-station-shutting-down-reactors-to-make-way-for-floating-nuclear-plant](https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2016-05-russias-bilibin-nuclear-station-shutting-down-reactors-to-make-way-for-floating-nuclear-plant){target="_blank"}
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