Russian offshore nuclear power
April 17, 2011
A stupid idea coming from the cold:
The Floating Nuclear Power Plants (FNPPs)
After the French with their Flexblue project (submerged nuclear power plants), and the Americans with their "Personal nuclear power plant," the Russians are not lagging in terms of nonsense. The idea is always to supply energy to the Lapps, the Eskimos, the Samoyeds, etc.
The result would be to make these people completely dependent.
- Be obedient, otherwise, we will cut off your energy.
None of these idiots say a word about the management of radioactive waste. Fortunately, we have a global rescue plan. But I will only talk about it at the beginning of May, after the release of my 16-page paper in Nexus.
Here is this Russian creation:
Fools from all countries, unite!
Floating nuclear power plant:
From launching to installation
The launching of the first floating nuclear power plant took place on June 30, 2011, according to the sites strf.ru and inauka.ru, which review the nautical characteristics and objectives of this unique installation in the world.
The Baltic Shipyard launched the Akademik Lomonossov, which will serve as the basis for the first floating nuclear power plant (FNPP). The realization of this energy project is the result of many years of research and the signing, in February 2009, of a contract between the Unified Industrial Corporation and the Energoatom trust.
The Russian nuclear industry plans to create 7 small floating power plants by 2015.
The signed contract provides for the construction, launching, completion of work, testing, and operation of a small floating nuclear power plant. The Baltic Shipyard continued the realization of this project, which was started in 2007 by the Sevmash company from Severodvinsk, which had become overloaded with work due to other orders.
It is no coincidence that it was the Baltic Shipyard that was entrusted with the construction of the power plant platform: from 1972 to 2007, this company built 12 ships of the same type. Less than a year later, the assembly of the floating block structure began on the banks of the Neva. This structure should be ready to be towed to its operating site by the second quarter of 2012. After the tests, the FNPP can be handed over to the Energoatom trust for the start of its operation by the fourth quarter of 2012.
The first FNPP is intended to be used in the Russian North and in the Russian Far East. It is no secret: supplying energy to the northern, hard-to-reach regions is one of the major challenges of the country. The FNPPs can provide a quick and economical solution to this problem. An FNPP can operate in a completely closed cycle, without using any structures located on the coast (...). Therefore, this type of power plant can be useful in hard-to-reach areas, as well as in projects requiring an autonomous and reliable energy supply (...), in the absence of a sufficiently developed energy system.
To date, the sites most likely to host the first FNPP are those of Viluchinsk (Kamchatka) and Pevek (Chukotka). It is also not excluded that FNPPs will be used for the exploitation of gas and oil fields. The project of building floating nuclear power plants interests, in particular, Gazprom, which is studying the possibility of using FNPPs to supply energy to its gas production and transportation facilities, and in particular to the Chtokman field and the Yamal peninsula.
The creation of an FNPP at the national naval shipyards of the Baltic Shipyard is the only project in this field to have received the approval of the IAEA (...). Great attention is being paid worldwide to this shipyard and to the operation of the future power plant. Several countries belonging to the club of nuclear powers have already expressed their interest in this project carried out in Russia (...).
The problem of supplying electricity to populated areas and production sites is becoming increasingly acute all over the world. The concept of "energy inaccessible regions" exists everywhere. These are often the areas of the Far North. In Russia, supplying these regions with energy and transporting it to the North in general has always been one of the most important tasks of the State. This problem is becoming even more acute in the 21st century, with the progressive depletion of oil and gas resources in easily accessible regions.
The floating block is a non-self-propelled ship, 144 meters long, 30 meters wide, with a double bottom and double hull, displacing 21,500 tons. An FNPP is expected to operate for 40 years. It can operate in the complex conditions of the Arctic, at temperatures of -40° and humidity of 85%.
An FNPP has good ecological advantages: it is enough to transport it to the site, install it, and remove it once its operating period is over. It then leaves no trace in the environment.
And after that, what do we do with it?