Russia’s nuclear power-generating ships, designed to power offshore oil-drilling platforms in the Arctic, are ready to become fully operational by 2016.
The ships will be equipped with KLT-40 reactors that can power 200,000 homes and can be modified to desalinate 240,000 cubic meters of water per day. Each ship will hold two reactors, which together will produce 70 megawatts of electricity. According to Rosenergoatom, the state-owned builder of the floating power plants, the enrichment levels will be kept far below the weapons-grade threshold established by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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