The world’s first and only floating nuclear power plant 'Akademik Lomonosov' is poised to begin commercial operations in Russia as two of its KLT-40 reactors have been successfully brought up to 100 per cent capacity recently, says a media release on Monday.
Andrei Petrov, Director General of Rosatom’s energy division Rosenergoatom, informed that after a series of positive tests, an acceptance certificate now be issued for the floating plant by the regulatory authority and an operating licence is expected to be granted in July.
Onshore and hydraulic structures for the floating plant, as well as transmission infrastructure to supply electricity to the local grid and heat to the city’s heating network, are scheduled to be completed by the end of this year.
The unit is scheduled to be towed to the Russian port of Pevek in the summer, where it will operate as a floating nuclear power plant, replacing a traditional nuclear plant, Bilibino, and a Combined Heat and Power plant, Chaunskaya.
Akademik Lomonosov, which could be connected to the power grid in December, is 144 metres in length, 30 metres wide and has a displacement of 21,000 tonnes.
