The Akademik Lomonosov has generated a lot of debate and discussion.
The Akademik Lomonosov set sail from the port of Murmansk in August.
In a statement Thursday, Russia's state-owned nuclear company Rosatom said the Akademik Lomonosov had started to produce electricity in the "isolated Chaun-Bilibino network" in the port of Pevek, Chukotka, which is located in the Far East area of Russia. Rosatom says the floating nuclear power plant is suited to remote areas and "island states" which need stable and in its own words, "green," sources of energy. Interest in the technology has come from North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, it claims.
Alexey Likhachev went on to state that the Akademik Lomonosov would "guarantee clean and reliable energy supplies to people and businesses across the region." For its part, Rosatom has said that its floating nuclear power plant has been designed with a "great margin of safety" which exceeds "all possible threats" and makes the nuclear reactors invincible to tsunamis and "other natural disasters."
Dorfman went on to explain via email the concerns that, in his view, people should have about the project. "It would be extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to abate the radiological consequences of a nuclear accident in the Arctic," he said.
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