Russia to build floating nuclear power station

Russia is to shrug off environmental concerns about 'floating Chernobyls' and press ahead with construction of the world's first floating nuclear power station. Rosenergoatom, Russia's nuclear power agency, says it intends to build up to six floating power stations and that the first one will be ready in 2010. They will supply heat and electricity to far-flung corners of Russia's Far East and Far North where it is difficult and expensive to ship coal and oil.

Russia has made no secret of the fact that it would also like to sell the controversial mobile power units to other countries such as China and India. The power stations look rather like cross-Channel ferries with two reactors placed above a barge-like platform. At a cost of 182m pounds each, they have a service life of forty years, require a crew of 69 people, and generate enough heat and electricity to power a medium-sized town. Much of the technology used to design them was drawn from Russia's unique experience of building and operating nuclear-powered icebreakers.

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