Russia's return to the Arctic North, enabled by Nuclear Power

Russia's return to the Arctic North, enabled by Nuclear Power

 

With Russia’s program to provide barge-like floating nuclear power plants—the first being the Academician Lomonosov—in the news recently, it’s fitting to look back to the actual origins of this novel solution to power provision and the need for such a solution in the first place. The concept of these mobile nuclear plants—which will be two reactors strong and towable to any seaport in the Russian Federation—comes out of the of nuclear icebreakers that Russia, and the Soviet Union before it, has maintained since the late 1950s. Despite several notable accidents with these icebreakers (mainly their first icebreaker, the Lenin, which had two separate accidents with her reactors in 1965 and 1967) and also with its nuclear sub fleet, Russia can probably claim the greatest wealth of overall experience working with nuclear propulsion in the Arctic and having good results.  Read More>>>>http://nuclearstreet.com/pro_nuclear_power_blogs/b/science-history-nuclear/archive/2013/09/28/russia-39-s-return-to-the-arctic-north-enabled-by-nuclear-power.aspx