{"id":96588,"date":"2019-09-23T14:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T21:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/russia-begins-commissioning-of-floating-nuclear-power-ship"},"modified":"2019-09-23T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T21:02:59","slug":"russia-begins-commissioning-of-floating-nuclear-power-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/russia-begins-commissioning-of-floating-nuclear-power-ship","title":{"rendered":"Russia Begins Commissioning of Floating Nuclear Power Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-begins-commissioning-of-floating-nuclear-power-ship2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The floating power unit Akademik Lomonosov has arrived at the port of its permanent location in Pevek, Chukotka, in Russia\u2019s Far East, where it is being docked to start operations by the end of this year.<\/li>\n<li>Once commissioned, it will become the world\u2019s first operational nuclear power plant based on small modular reactors (SMRs) technology and a \u2018working prototype\u2019 for reliable source of low-carbon energy supply in remote areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s maybe one small step for sustainable development in the Arctic, but it\u2019s a giant leap for the decarbonisation of remote off-grid areas, and a watershed in the development of small modular nuclear power plants in the world,\u201d said Rosatom CEO, Alexey Likhachev.<\/p>\n<p>Director General of the World Nuclear Association, Agneta Rising, commented: \u201cTo meet the nuclear industry\u2019s Harmony goal of supplying at least 25% of the world\u2019s electricity by 2050 we will need to bring the benefits of nuclear energy to more people in a wider range of locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The floating power unit Akademik Lomonosov has arrived at the port of its permanent location in Pevek, Chukotka, in Russia\u2019s Far East, where it is being docked to start operations by the end of this year. Once commissioned, it will become the world\u2019s first operational nuclear power plant based on small modular reactors (SMRs) technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}