Akademik Lomonosov nuclear power plant

Akademik Lomonosov nuclear power plant
Akademik Lomonossow 2019
location
Coordinates	69 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 170 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 69 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 170 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E
Country:	Russia
Data
Owner:	Rose energoatom
Operator:	Rose energoatom
Project start:	April 15, 2007
Commercial operation:	November 2019
Active reactors (gross):	2 (70 MW)
Was standing:	October 2019
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonossow ( Russian Академик Ломоносов , German translation " Akademiemitglied Lomonossow", full name in Russian ПАТЭС Академик Ломоносов for floating thermal power station , St. Petersburg academician floating nuclear power station , St. Petersburg floating nuclear power station ) is a Russian nuclear power plant . It is the prototype of a mobile type of nuclear power plant.

The Akademik Lomonossow is named after the Russian poet and natural scientist Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow and will - contrary to initial plans - supply the city of Pewek on the Northeast Passage with energy.

history

Construction of the floating and therefore mobile nuclear power plant (mAKW) began on April 15, 2007 in the Sevmasch shipyard in Severodvinsk . According to the initial plans, completion was scheduled for 2012, but then had to be postponed to 2016, 2018 and later to 2019.

Originally, it was supposed to supply the submarine shipyard and the city of Severodvinsk in northwestern Russia with electricity and heat from 2010. On August 8, 2008, the owner and operator Rosenergoatom announced that Sewmasch would stop work on the nuclear power plant and that construction by the Saint Petersburg shipyard Baltiski zavod ( Балтийский завод ) would continue. In the meantime, the future berth has been moved to Vilyuchinsk in the Kamchatka region . According to the latest stipulations, the mAKW will supply the city of Pewek in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug .

The floating nuclear power plant was on June 30, 2010 in St. Petersburg launched and received by the godmother and former Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matviyenko his name. It is 144 meters long and 30 meters wide and the construction costs will amount to the equivalent of around 270 million euros . On April 28, 2018, the Akademik Lomonossow left Saint Petersburg: A tug pulled it across the Baltic Sea, North Sea and North Atlantic, initially in the Barents Sea to Murmansk . The arrival on May 17, 2018 was celebrated with a celebration. There the two reactors were equipped with nuclear fuel elements.

The onward transport to Pewek began in August 2019, for which an icebreaker and a tug were used. The ship reached its destination port in September 2019. Commercial operation was announced for November 2019, and on December 19, 2019 Rosatom reported on the start of electricity supply to the port city of Pewek. In May 2020 all tests were completed and full operation of the power plant began. The Akademik Lomonossow serves as a replacement for the Bilibino nuclear power plant .

Data

The ship has a length of 144.4 meters, the width is 30 m, the height 10 m, the draft 5.6 m. On a large inland waterway of class VIb , such as the Rhine, Danube, Rhone and Waal, the dimensions can be length 195 m × width 22.80 × draft 2.50 - 4.50. Nuclear power plants are located on large bodies of water because of the necessary cooling, and Castor containers can also be transported by ship. Due to their width and height, it would not be possible to transport such NPP ships across most inland waters to the locations of nuclear power plants in order to serve as replacements. In addition, over 40 pieces would be necessary to replace a 1400 MW reactor.

The floating nuclear power plant is equipped with two KLT-40S reactors modified as prototypes and should be able to supply a city with 200,000 inhabitants with electricity. Each reactor should have a gross electrical output of 35  MW and a net output of 32 MW and provide 73 MW of process heat. Both reactors should each have a thermal output of 150 MW. The same type of reactor is in Russian nuclear icebreakers of Taymyr-class and on the Russian nuclear-powered Sevmorput freighter used.

Reactor block	Reactor type / model	el. net power	el. Gross power	thermal performance	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Akademik Lomonossow 1	DWR / KLT-40S	32 MW	38 MW	150 MW	04/15/2007	December 19, 2019	December 19, 2019
Akademik Lomonossow 2	DWR / KLT-40S	32 MW	38 MW	150 MW	04/15/2007	December 19, 2019	December 19, 2019

criticism

model

Russian and international environmental organizations see such a nuclear power plant as a new threat to the environment. You followed the transport of the Akademik Lomonossow on the Greenpeace ship Beluga II and seriously disrupted security by unauthorized approach to the Russian escort ship Spasatel Karew near the Danish island of Bornholm . On arrival in Murmansk there were protests by smaller local environmental groups such as the Chernobyl30 association or Ecodefense . In particular, it is criticized that there were no hearings for the residents of the city, even though a law makes such information mandatory. In contrast, the Russian state media describe the actions of the environmentalists as “ecological extremism” or “destructive practice of environmental protests”.

See also

• List of nuclear power plants
• List of nuclear facilities in Russia

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ First floating energy reactor in Russia is being built by Sevmasch , Novosti May 19, 2006.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Reactors ready for floating plant , World Nuclear News of August 7, 2009 (English).
4. ↑ Reactors ready for floating plant , World Nuclear News of December 12, 2012 (English)
5. ↑ News on www.atomic-energy.ru
6. ^ Work starts on on-shore infrastructure for Russian floating plant - World Nuclear News. Retrieved January 7, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Rosenergoatom - 08/08/2008 - Construction of floating NPP to be continued by Baltiysky Zavod (English).
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "Russian Federation: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
9. ↑ PRIS - Reactor Details. Retrieved May 1, 2018 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Bernhard Clasen: Radiant export hit . In: Neues Deutschland , May 23, 2010, p. 16.
11. ↑ RIA Novosti: Russia makes first floating nuclear power plant afloat , June 30, 2010; Retrieved June 30, 2010.
12. ↑ Russia builds floating nuclear power plant , Der Spiegel , June 15, 2006.
13. ↑ Russia's floating nuclear power plant sets sail. Spiegel Online, April 28, 2018, accessed on the same day.
14. ↑ Akademik Lomonossow in Murmansk - floating nuclear power plant put to sea. Tagesschau.de, August 23, 2019, accessed on the same day.
15. ↑ A floating nuclear power plant is being ramped up in Siberia. In: Deutschlandfunk - Die Nachrichten - Wissensnachrichten. November 8, 2018, accessed on January 7, 2020 (German). 
16. ↑ Russia's floating power plant meets construction standards world-nuclear-news.org, January 11, 2018, accessed December 19, 2019.
17. ↑ Russia: First floating nuclear power plant generates electricity: Controversial project orf.at, December 19, 2019, accessed December 19, 2019.
18. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: "Atom-Titanic": Floating nuclear power plant goes into operation despite criticism - DER SPIEGEL - Economy. Retrieved May 22, 2020 . 
19. ↑ BASIC SAFETY PRINCIPLES OF KLT-40C REACTOR PLANTS , OKBM
20. ↑ Nuclear energy: World Report 2008. German Atomic Forum , April 2009, p. 250 , archived from the original on January 7, 2012 ; Retrieved March 3, 2013 . 
21. ↑ ^{a b} Russia connects floating plant to grid in world-nuclear-news.org. Retrieved April 3, 2020