AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE,
MOSCOW: Russia will construct its first floating nuclear power station by 2010, the acting chief of Russia's Rosenergoatom nuclear power producer said late Tuesday as quoted by the RIA-Novosti news agency.
“The station is due to become operational by October 2010, and the project will cost 9.1 billion rubles (330 million dollars),” Sergei Obozov said, adding that the station would provide energy for the giant Sevmash plant as well as export a fifth of its produce.
Obozov also noted that Russia needs to create “a typical power unit for a floating station, because there are foreign clients in the Pacific Asia region.”
Russia may set up as many as six floating power stations in the future, with plans for Kamchatka, Chukotka, Yakutia and the Krasnoyarsk region now in the works.
