Sevmash Wins Tender For Floating Nuclear Reactor

CIVIL NUCLEAR

File photo: Inside Sevmash shipyard Severodvinsk, Russia.

by Staff Writers
St Petersburg (RIAN) May 22, 2006
Sevmash shipyard company has won a tender to construct and test a floating nuclear reactor for a low-power thermal and electric power plant, the company said Friday.

"The first station will provide electric and thermal energy to Sevmash [shipyard in Severodvinsk]," the company said. "It is planned to construct such plants in remote regions of [Russia's] Far North and Far East."

The project to construct a low-power nuclear power plant was developed under a federal target program on effective energy usage.

Source: RIA Novosti

CIVIL NUCLEAR

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