CCTV News May 23 news, the Russian National Atomic Energy Corporation issued a statement on May 22 local time, saying that the world ’s first floating nuclear power station “Academician Lomonosov” was in the Russian Far East Chukotka Autonomous Region on the same day (22nd) Pevek City enters commercial operation. The nuclear power plant is the 11th nuclear power plant in Russia and the “northern nuclear power plant in the world.”

The “Academician Lomonosov” floating nuclear power plant consists of a barge of 144 meters long and 30 meters wide, and two 35 MW nuclear reactors carried on the barge. Provide electricity for factories, cities and offshore natural gas and oil drilling platforms in extremely remote areas of Russia.

(Originally entitled “The world’s first floating nuclear power plant put into commercial operation in the Russian Far East”)