The world’s sole floating thermal nuclear power plant put into commercial operation in Russia
On 22 May 2020, Rosenergoatom Concern put into commercial operation a floating thermal nuclear power plant in Pevek, Chukotka Autonomous Region, which has no world analogues.
The floating thermal nuclear power plant (FTNPP) as part of the Akademik Lomonosov floating power unit (FPU) and
onshore hydrotechnical utilities is designed for reliable year-round heat and power supply to remote regions of
the Arctic and the Far East. The power capacity of the FTNPP is 70 MW, and the thermal capacity is 50 Gcal/h. The Akademik Lomonosov FPU is the lead project for a series of low-power mobile transportable power units. The unit
is equipped with two reactors with an electric capacity of 35 MW each, with deadweight of 21,500 tons, and service
life of 40 years. The onshore facilities of the FTNPP are designed to receive and distribute electricity and hot water supplied from
the power plant for infrastructure facilities of the Chukotka Autonomous Region. FTNPP is a project of Rosenergoatom Concern, which is part of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom.
‘Beginning today, the project for the construction of a floating nuclear power plant in the city of Pevek, Chukotka autonomous region can be considered successfully completed. Now it has become the 11th industrially operated nuclear power plant in Russia and the northernmost in the world’, said Andrey Petrov, CEO of Rosenergoatom Concern.
The world's only floating nuclear power plant put into commercial operation in Pevek, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (photo: Rosenergoatom Concern)
The groundwork for putting the plant into commercial operation was laid the documents of the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision and the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Nature Management. The documents indicate: the FTNPP fully complies with applicable standards and rules, including sanitary and epidemiological, environmental, fire, building requirements and state standards.
At the 110/10 kV Beregovaya substation of Chukotenergo company, which is part of the onshore facilities of the FTNPP, the 126 kV Izolyator wall bushings are installed and successfully operating.
Izolyator 126 kV wall bushings installed in the wall of a closed switchgear of the 110/10 kV Beregovaya substation of Chukotenergo company
Since the first connection to the grid on December 19, 2019, the FTNPP has already generated over 47.3 million kWh of electricity. In the future, the station is expected to become the main source of energy for Chukotka.
Based on materials of Rosenergoatom Concern.