Russia just launched a 70 MW floating nuclear power plant to the Arctic Ocean

Russia recently launched a floating nuclear power station, the Academik Lomonosov, on the Baltic Sea. The 70-megawatt plant will journey north around Norway to receive fuel in Murmansk, and from there be towed to Pevek, an Arctic oil town. Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe nuclear expert Jan Haverkamp referred to the plant as a nuclear Titanic, saying in a statement, "Nuclear reactors bobbing around the Arctic Ocean will pose a shockingly obvious threat to a fragile environment which is already...

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