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Floating nuclear power plant ready in 2012

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The shipyard Baltiysky Zavod in Sankt Petersburg plan to deliver Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant in 2012.

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A press release from the shipyard informs that the first 9.9 billion RUB power plant will be ready to be delivered to Energoatom in the last quarter of 2012, Portnews.ru writes.

The construction of Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant started at the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk in April 2007, but in August 2008 Rosatom transferred the assignment to the Baltiysky Zavod in Sankt Petersburg.

At the end of February 2009 Rosatom and the Republic of Yakutia signed an agreement for implementing investments to build four floating nuclear power plants for use in the northern coastal areas of the Siberian Republic, BarentsObserver reported.