Posted on 04/30/2018 10:36:11 AM PDT by BBell
A statement said the FNPP was towed out of the St. Petersburg shipyard where it was constructed for travel to its final destination to the port of Pevek in Russia's extreme northeastern region of Chukotka.
It is to be towed through the Baltic Sea and around the northern tip of Norway to Murmansk, where its reactors will be loaded with nuclear fuel, said Rosatom, who are the equipment suppliers and consultants for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu.
"Akademik Lomonosov will replace Pevek's aging Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant and Chaunsk coal-fired power plant, saving about 50,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year compared to the current levels. Upon its connection to the grid, Akademik Lomonosov will become the northernmost nuclear installation in the world," it said.
The Lomonosov is expected to be put into service in early 2019.
"It is a significant milestone for our project as well as for the world nuclear industry. Floating nuclear power plants will enable electricity and heat supply to the most remote regions boosting growth and sustainable development," Rosatom Director (Construction and Operation of Floating Nuclear Thermal Power Plants) Vitaly Trutnev said in a statement.
An FNPP is basically a mobile, low-capacity reactor unit operable in remote areas isolated from the main power distribution system, or in places hard to access by land. They are designed to maintain both uninterruptible power and plentiful desalinated water supply in remote areas.
The FNPP has a capacity of 70MW and is equipped with two reactors of 35MW each.
Rosatom said that an FNPP's operational life span is 40 years, with the possibility of being extended up to 50 years.
I know you were being sarcastic. The word “Chernobyl” has come to mean a nuclear disaster or pending nuclear disaster.
So where do you plug it in when you dock?
An ugly floating submarine?
Be careful what you post, some of those words make you sound like a putz.
When I saw your first post I laughed out loud, literally.
Then I saw NorthMountain’s response.
I wrote “In the words of Senator Claghorn [or Foghorn Leghorn], “I say, I say, that’s a joke, Son.”
Then I took another look at the thread, and found you’d gone there already.
Be careful what you post, some of those words make you sound like a putz.
They made the grid connection work from the dock/wharf.
“...there are MASSIVE differences between the design of Chernobyl and of these seagoing plants.”
Yes, the seagoing plants probably don’t have *any* concrete containment vessels. :)
Thank you for being the only person on FR today who knows sarcasm when he sees it.
In all seriousness the Russians do not have a good track record in this area.
Perhaps you should sharpen your literary skills ...
I’m cynical and sarcastic. I can spot it a mile away. Too many people here can’t. Heck, a lot here can not even spot satire.
When fish begin to look like Picasso designed them .... fins growing out of eyeballs .... we’ll know that the reactor sprung a leak.
Your homework, should you choose to accept it, is to ......blah, blah.....Then you’ll be in a position to intelligently answer your own question.
Why the rude come back/comment(s)?
Relax, n00b.
And you just proved yourself to be a braying jackass, Jane.
Maybe it is, so why the ‘get the hell off my lawn and stay off’ type response?
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