Federal Nuclear Power Agency News

In a couple of years, a new kind of vessel will appear on the sea - the floating nuclear power plant (FNPP). The Academician Lomonosov, currently under construction in , is only one project of the several FNPP being developed. The formal keel laying ceremony took place in April 2007 at the Sevmash shipyard of the Russian State Centre for Nuclear Shipbuilding in . After about a year and a half, the state-owned corporation Rosatom revoked the general contract, handing it over to the Baltiysky Zavod (Baltic Plant) Shipyard in . So now the birthplace of the first floating nuclear power plant will be the Baltic Sea instead of the . The FNPP is expected to be ready by 2010. The FNPP will be a barge able to move with the help of a tugboat and transportation will be done without nuclear fuel.