21,000-tonne vessel with two KLT-40S reactor units becomes northernmost nuclear facility
The world’s only floating nuclear power station, docked at the port town of Pevek in Russia’s far east Chukotka autonomous district, has officially begun commercial operation, state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced on 22 May.
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