The Moscow Times reports that after decades of planning and delays, Russia will have the first floating nuclear power station in the World ready in 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday, the Interfax news agency reported. He said that it is basically an atomic reactor that can be docked to coastal infrastructure, and it will provide energy through a cable to any Arctic city, and the first such floating energy station containing a small, modular reactor - aka SMR- will be ready by October 2016, Rogozin said, who oversees Russian activities in the Arctic. Floating nuclear power stations are by no means a new idea for Russia, which has been talking about building a fleet of such stations since the early 2000s. This would represent an adaptation of nuclear power plants to operate submarines, wherein the first such plants were included in the U.S. Nautilus submarine in the 1950-60s.
In 2007, construction began on the first floating station, called the Akademik Lomonosov, but after numerous delays the vessel has yet to become fully operational. The floating power station, which can generate a maximum of 70 megawatts of power, was supposed to dock in the far eastern region of Kamchatka in 2017. However, the region is behind on building the necessary coastal infrastructure, news agency RIA Novosti reported last year. The Rogozin timeline is consistent with remarks made late last year by Alexei Kadilov, CEO of the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg, which is building the floating atomic energy station. Kadilov told journalists in October, 2014 that the Akademik Lomonosov would be completed and ready by late 2016.
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