#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russia may have 15 floating nuclear thermal power plants along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Rosatom sees such a volume of potential demand from companies. This was stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum’s session Northern Sea Route: New Challenges by the state corporation head Alexey Lihachev.
“According to the most conservative estimates, today we see an order for about 15 floating power units along the NSR”, RBC quotes Lihachev.
According to him, such orders are also of interest to energy companies.
Alexey Lihachev recalled that Rosatom is already implementing a corresponding project for power supply to the Baimsky mining and processing plant in Chukotka, which is being built by the Kazakh KAZ Minerals. This project required a minimum of four such floating nuclear thermal power plants (FNPPs). This project cost was estimated at 169 billion rubles.
The very first FNPP in the world began operation in the city of Pevek, Chukotka, in December 2019. This floating power plant is to replace the capacities of the Bilibino NPP and the Chaunskaya CHPP. It began to be built in the 2000s in the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. The head power unit was launched in 2010.
Earlier, the government called the Northern Sea Route development the most cost-effective investment mega-project in Russia: until 2035, this will bring almost 21 trillion rubles to the budgets of all levels, while only 600 billion rubles are invested in it from the federal budget.
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Text: Elena Popova, Photo: https://t.me/rosatomru
