Russia to build the world’s first floating nuclear power plant in 2010

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Russia to build the world’s first floating nuclear power plant in 2010

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Russia’s Rosenergoatom concern and Sevmashpredpriyatie shipyard based in the northern city of Severodvinsk concluded a 9 million rubles contract for building a floating nuclear power plant. The ship-makers will test the first floating nuclear power plant at the shipyard. This nuclear power plant is expected to generate cheap electricity and heat, and also to ease the energy tariffs for the enterprise. The unique project is due to be ended in autumn of 2010.

The construction of a floating nuclear power plant has been considered for the past twelve yearsin Russia.  At that, it was clear from very beginning that realization of the unique project would be not more expensive than construction of an atomic submarine. And the project is to be incredibly effective as much money and efforts is spent every year in Russia’s northern and eastern territories for the northern delivery. Realization of the project was several times delayed because of money problems and ecologists’ pretensions. Ecologists gave the project their go-ahead only after the floating nuclear power plant underwent an ecological expertise.