Thursday, September 19, 2019

"Russia’s first sea-borne nuclear power plant arrives at its Arctic base"

These are isolated little communities.
The same area we were looking at in last Sunday's "Some Potentially Positive News For The Arctic Ice Cap This Winter", the Chukchi, East Siberian and Beaufort Seas.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Chukchi_Sea_map.png

And from Arctic Today, Sept. 16:
The plant could be providing power to Pevek by the end of the year.
Russia’s first-floating nuclear power plant has arrived to its permanent base near the isolated Russian town of Pevek, on the Chukchi Sea across the Bering Strait from Alaska, Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom said on Saturday.

Developed by Rosatom, the plant, known as Akademik Lomonosov, set off on a 5,000-kilometer (3,100-mile) journey on Aug. 23 through Arctic waters to reach the Chukotka region.

Rosatom said it aims to make the floating station operational by the year-end. It would become the world’s northernmost nuclear power station.

The plant will replace a coal-fired power plant and an aging nuclear power plant supplying more than 50,000 people with electricity in Chukotka....
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