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Floating nuclear plant - Russia
May 10 , 2018
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- Russia has launched the world's only floating nuclear power unit into the Baltic Sea.
- The FNPP was towed out of the St. Petersburg shipyard where it was constructed for travel to its final destination to the port of Pevek in Russia's extreme northeastern region of Chukotka.
- The floating nuclear power unit (FPU) “Akademik Lomonosov” was named after the famed Russian scientist Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov.
- Akademik Lomonosov will replace the Bilibino nuclear power plant, constructed in 1974, and the 70-year-old Chaunskaya Thermal Power Plant.
- The FPU belongs to Russia’s Floating Nuclear Thermal Power Plant (FNPP) fleet, which is designed to withstand the harshest conditions at sea.
- Environmental activists have slammed the move, calling it 'Nuclear Titanic' and 'Chernobyl on ice'. The US once used a floating nuclear plant in Panama from 1968-1975.
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