Floating NPP on the move
Russia’s state nuclear industry company Rosatom is moving the construction of the first ever floating nuclear power plant from Severodvinsk (Arkhangelsk Oblast) to the Baltiiskii Zavod in Sankt Petersburg.
The move is made first of all in order to meet deadlines. The Sevmash company has long struggled with major capacity problems. The formal keel laying ceremony took place in April 2007 at the Sevmash shipyard of the Russian State Center for Nuclear Shipbuilding in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Region. After about a year and a half, the state-owned corporation Rosatom revoked the general contract, handing it over to the Baltiysky Zavod Shipyard in Sankt Petersburg, RIA Novosti. The birthplace of the first-ever floating nuclear power plant will be the Baltic Sea instead of the White Sea. The Baltiiskii Zavod has long experience in constructing nuclear-powered icebreakers. Last year, the yard successfully launched the last of Russia’s nuclear-powered icebreaker, the “50-years Victory”.
