Speaking at the forum, Rosatom CEO Aleksei Lihachev emphasized that the company has a wide array of projects and proposals in the areas of transport, energy, mining, and environmental protection, many of them taken into account by the government and by companies operating in the region. For example, Rosatom nuclear icebreakers are actively assisting in the creation of the so-called Northern Sea Route, the new northern shipping route running along the Russian Arctic coast from the Kara Sea to the Bering Strait. The Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant, meanwhile, provides power to the Arctic territories. Furthermore, the company is justifiably proud of its role in solving existing ecological problems associated with the so-called nuclear legacy, dismantling and disposing of nuclear-powered thermoelectric generators and helping to reduce radiation in contaminated areas.
Engineers from the Russian nuclear industry and the St. Petersburg-based Iceberg Design Bureau have come up with a conceptual design for a floating nuclear power plant which they say would ensure the provision of a stable source of electrical energy for a range of Arctic development projects. Work is underway to create a power plant based on the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant, a pilot project designed to provide electricity to the Chukotka Region. According to officials, the construction of such floating power units would require efforts to optimize the original project, reducing its cost and the time required for its construction. Speaking to RIA Novosti on the sidelines of last week forum, Atomenergomash CEO Andrei Nikipelov confirmed that the subsidiary, other Rosatom companies, and the Iceberg Design Bureau were already working on this optimized floating power plant design.
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