Akademik Lomonosov is a non-self-propelled vessel to be operate as the first Russian floating nuclear power station

Russian floating nuclear power station

Floating nuclear power stations are vessels projected by Rosatom that present self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants...

. The ship was named after Academician

Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....

 Mikhail Lomonosov

Mikhail Lomonosov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art,...

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History

The keel of Akademik Lomonosov was laid on 15 April 2007. Construction started at the Sevmash

Sevmash

JSC PO Sevmash is a shipbuilding company based in Severodvinsk, a port city on Russia's White Sea. The name Sevmash is an abbreviation of Severnoye Mashinostroitelnoye Predpriyatie , i.e. "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise". Sevmash is the largest shipbuilding enterprise in Russia and today the...

 Submarine-Building Plant in Severodvinsk

Severodvinsk

Severodvinsk is a city in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located in the delta of the Northern Dvina River, west of Arkhangelsk. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance . Municipally, it is incorporated as Severodvinsk Urban Okrug. The city was founded as...

. The celebrations were attended by the first deputy prime minister of Russia

Prime Minister of Russia

The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation The use of the term "Prime Minister" is strictly informal and is not allowed for by the Russian Constitution and other laws....

, Sergei Ivanov

Sergei Ivanov

Sergei Borisovich Ivanov is a Russian senior official and statesman. He was Minister of Defence from March 2001 to February 2007, Deputy Prime Minister from November 2005 to February 2007, and the First Deputy Prime Minister from February 2007 to May 2008...

, and by the head of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko

Sergei Kiriyenko

Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko is a Russian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Russia from 23 March to 23 August 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin...

. Originally, Akademik Lomonosov was supposed to supply power to Severodvinsk town and SevMashZavod itself. However, in August 2008, the Russian government approved the transfer of work from Sevmash

Sevmash

JSC PO Sevmash is a shipbuilding company based in Severodvinsk, a port city on Russia's White Sea. The name Sevmash is an abbreviation of Severnoye Mashinostroitelnoye Predpriyatie , i.e. "Northern Machine-Building Enterprise". Sevmash is the largest shipbuilding enterprise in Russia and today the...

 to the Baltic Shipyard

Baltic Shipyard

The Baltic Shipyard is one of the oldest shipyards in Russia. It is located in Saint Petersburg in the south-western part of the Vasilievsky Island. It is one of the three shipyards active in Saint Petersburg...

 in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

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The first reactor was delivered in May and the second one in August 2009. Akademik Lomonosov was launched on 30 June 2010. After commissioning in 2012 Akademik Lomonosov will be deployed at Vilyuchinsk

Vilyuchinsk

Vilyuchinsk is a closed town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula about across Avacha Bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population: -History:...

, in the Kamchatka region in Russia's far east.

Description

Akademik Lomonosov has a length of 144 metres (472.4 ft) and width of 30 metres (98.4 ft). It has a displacement of 21,500 tonnes and a crew of 69 people. For the power generation, it has two modified KLT-40 naval propulsion reactors

Soviet naval reactor

Soviet naval reactors have been used to power both military and civilian vessels, including:* Nuclear submarines:** Attack submarines.** Cruise missile submarines.** Ballistic missile submarines.* Nuclear icebreakers:** Soviet icebreaker Lenin....

 together providing up to 70 MW of electricity or 300 MW of heat. Reactors are designed by OKBM Afrikantov and assembled by Nizhniy Novgorod Research and Development Institute Atomenergoproekt (both part of Atomenergoprom

Atomenergoprom

Atomenergoprom is a 100% state-owned holding company that unites Russian civil nuclear industry. It is a part of the Rosatom State corporation.-History:...

). The reactor vessels are produced by Izhorskiye Zavody. The turbo-generators are supplied by Kaluga Turbine Plant

Power Machines

OJSC "Power Machines" is a Russian energy systems machine-building company founded in 2000...

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