17.05.2018  Department of information and public relations of Rosenergoatom

Rosenergoatom: the world’s first floating power unit (FPU) Akademik Lomonosov has entered Kola Bay

The world’s only floating power unit (FPU)* Akademik Lomonosov that left the territory of Baltiyskiy Zavod in St. Petersburg on 28 April, 2018 has successfully arrived to Kola Bay.

In the nearest time before putting to Atomflot FGUP moor the FPU is to take a number of necessary operations on mooring.

After their completion on 19 May, the FPU will be shipped on its constant place at moorage wall of the moor No 5 where the coast systems will be installed and the works on the ship’s colouring will be started.

Next, the fuel loading and the physical start-up of FPU reactor will take place at the same place.

The following stage is the relocating the loaded FPU from Murmansk to Chukotka to the sea port of Pevek where the FPU will be connected to the coastal infrastructure. The power unit will be the main part of the world’s first floating nuclear heat power plant (FNPP) and provide Chukotka AO with electric energy, thus replacing the capacity of technologically outdated Bilibino NPP and Chaunskaya TPP.

*The floating nuclear power unit (FPU) (FPU) “Akademik Lomonosov” of project 20870 is the main project of the series of mobile transportable power units of low power. It is designed to work as a part of the Floating Nuclear Thermal Power Plant (FNPP) and is of a new class of power sources on the basis of Russian technologies of nuclear shipbuilding.

The nuclear power plant has two KLT-40S reactor units that can generate up to 70 MW of electric energy and 50 Gcal/hr of heat energy during its normal operation. This is enough to keep the activity of the town populated with 100,000 people. The FPU is the unique and the world’s first project of the mobile transportable power unit of low power. It is designed for the operation at the areas of the Extreme North and the Russian Far East. Its main task is to provide the remote industrial plants, port cities, as well as the offshore gas and oil platforms with electric energy. The FNPP is designed with the great margin of safety that exceeds all possible threats and makes nuclear reactors invincible for tsunamis and other natural disasters. In addition, the nuclear processes at the floating power unit meet all requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and do not pose any threat to the environment.

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