The Russians have come up with a concept, where they put two 60% used 35MW reactors from various ships to good use in a harbor near you. In Denmark, Greenland and Faeroe Islands we could use this concept in many of our remote harbors, where 70MW would be a sufficient base power. The Russians intent to run a complete service schedule, where they will sail a new plant to you every 12 years or so and recharge the old one for further use, in up to three cycles.

Fuel for Russia's first floating plant

20 July 2010

Russian nuclear fuel fabricator TVEL announced that its Mashinostroitelny Zavod (MSZ) subsidiary will produce the first batch of nuclear fuel in 2011 for Russia's first floating nuclear power plant. Siting studies for the second such plant have also started.

The completed hull of the first floating plant - the Akademik Lomonosov - was launched on 30 June at the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard in Saint Petersburg. The vessel will house two 35 MW KLT-40S nuclear reactors, similar to those used in Russia's nuclear-powered ice breakers.

Rosatom plans to load the fuel into the two reactors by 2012, after which the vessel will be towed for deployment in Vilyuchinsk, in the Kamchatka region in Russia's far east.

According to a Nuclear.Ru report, the potential operating life of the floating plant will be 38 years, comprising of three 12-year cycles, with outages of an average eight months in between.

Source WNN...