IAEA inspectors for the first time visited the only small nuclear power plant in the world — the floating power unit "Akademik Lomonosov", which is located in the northernmost city of Russia.
"The IAEA delegation visited the world's only floating nuclear thermal power plant for the first time," Rosatom reports.
The state corporation said that the guests visited the station, the coastal site and the pier-pier.
"In addition, they took part in a meeting at which they reviewed both the already implemented tasks of locating and operating the nuclear power plant in the Chaun-Bilibinsky power hub, and information about Rosenergoatom's activities in terms of the prospective development of small-scale energy.
"The floating nuclear power plant in Chukotka has already shown its efficiency and efficiency not only in terms of electricity generation, but also in terms of heat supply to the northernmost city of Russia — Pevek. Definitely, the future belongs to small reactors and today Russia is ahead of the whole world in this direction," said Mikhail Chudakov, Deputy Director General of the IAEA.
As EADaily reported, the United States is going to compete in the global market with Russia and China by promoting small modular reactors. However, in reality there is still one. And that — in Russia. The Akademik Lomonosov floating power unit is equipped with two KLT-40S reactor units capable of producing 70 MW of electricity and up to 50 Gcal/h of thermal energy for water heating.