Port Pevek (Chukotka) welcomes this year’s first vessels with construction materials for the world’s first FNPP

Port Pevek (Chukotka Autonomous District) has welcomed this year’s first vessels with construction materials and equipment for the world’s first floating nuclear power plant (FNPP). PR Department of Rosenergoatom Concern JSC says M/V Kuznetsov and M/V Sabetta have delivered almost 10,000 t of sand, crushed stone, cement and metal structures from Arkhangelsk. Those materials will be used for construction of hydraulic engineering structures and coastal infrastructure.

M/V Makhmastal is to leave Arkhangelsk for Pevek on October 30. It will deliver more construction materials.

Baltiysky Zavod-Sudostroyeniye LLC commenced mooring trials of the Floating Nuclear Power Plant in July 2016. In May 2018, upon completion of the tests, FNPP Akademik Lomonosov will leave the shipyard and will be towed to Murmansk, where nuclear fuel will be loaded in October 2018. The nuclear reactor start-up is scheduled for November 2018.

The floating power unit Akademik Lomonosov of Project 20870 is to operate as a part of floating nuclear power plant equipped with reactor units КЛТ-40С able to produce up to 35 MW of electric energy each. 

The main purpose of the project is to supply power to large industrial enterprises, port cities as well as offshore gas and oil platforms.  The lead project is based on based on proven-in-use power plants of serial nuclear-powered icebreakers operated in the Arctic for a long time.

FNPP is to replace the Bilibino NPP which generates 80% of the electricity produced by the closed-loop Chaun-Bilibino energy system, a pioneer nuclear power plant built in the Arctic region (in Chukotka). Shutdown of the first power plan unit is scheduled for 2019 with the entire Bilibino NPP to stop operation in 2021. 

The floating nuclear power plant is overdesigned to meet all the possible risks and ensure the reactors’ unvulnerability in case of tsunami and other disasters. Nuclear processes comply with all the requirements of International Atomic Energy Agency and present no risks for the environment.

The structure of JSC "Concern Rosenergoatom" includes all 10 nuclear power plants of Russia, which have the status of branches of the Concern, and companies that provide activities generating company. In total, 10 active Russian nuclear power plants are in operation in 35 units with a total installed capacity of 27.9 GW. NPP electricity production share in total production of Russia’s UES – 18.3%.