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The installation of two 300-tonne tanks has taken the project to build Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant a step further towards completion.

The tanks, which provide a shielded housing for the reactor vessels and their cooling circuits, were manufactured by Baltiysky Zavod shipyard, which is constructing the plant for Rosenergoatom. They were lowered into the reactor compartment of the Akademik Lomonosov over two days in an operation made complicated by ice on the Neva river. Baltiysky Zavod general director Alexander Voznesensky described the installation of the tanks as a milestone in the project.

Akademik Lomonosov is Rosenergoatom’s first-of-a-kind floating nuclear power plant and will contain two 35 MWe KLT-40S nuclear reactors. The vessel’s keel was laid in April 2007 at Sevmash in Severodvinsk, but the project was subsequently transferred to the Baltiysky Zavod. The 21,500 tonne hull was launched in 2010, although construction work was frozen in mid-2011 amid bankruptcy proceedings against the shipyard. The company was subsequently acquired by state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation and Rosenergoatom signed a new contract with Baltiysky Zavod shipyard for the completion of the first floating nuclear power plant in December 2012. It is now scheduled for commissioning in 2016.

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Launch of Russia’s first floating nuclear plant pushed back several years – again

Hindered by contract delays,bankruptcy proceedings, and switching ownership of the company that is building it, plans to launch Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant have again been scuttled, with the new launch date pushed back from this year to 2016, Bellona has learned.

Charles Digges, 14/12-2012

In all, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom wishes to produce six 70 megawatt floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), which it says are designed to deliver power to far flung regionsalong its own northern Arctic coast, and says further that the plants are a hot item on the wish list of foreign customers, mainly China.

Many of these potential foreign customers had been hoping Russia would meet its originally promised deadline for FNPP delivery of 2010.

Environmental outcry over FNPPs has been present since their inception. Russia has neither the means nor infrastructure to ensure their safe operation, has made no plans for disposing of their spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and has not taken into consideration the enormous nuclear proliferation risks posed by placing nuclear reactors in remote areas.

Furthermore, officials apparently have not considered their vulnerability to terrorist attacks while on site or during transportation to their intended locations.

But the fates of shifting shipyards, bankruptcy of the shipyard to where the first floating nuclear power plant was transferred, and the acquisition of the foundering shipyard by other financial holdings have not been kind to the timely launch of one of Rosatom’s pet projects – and have more than once shed doubt on whether the environmentally dicey project would be completed at all.

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Investigative Journalist Youssef Jajili is urgently seeking the help of the international press and human rights organizations to shed light on his case to prevent the Moroccan courts from sentencing him to time in a harsh prison and imposing hefty fines that could force the closure of his award-winning independent weekly investigative magazine. Jajili, 29, has been charged with criminal defamation in response to bold journalism that exposes corruption and human rights abuses within the Moroccan government.  Immediate action is required as Jajili’s trial is set to start on Monday, January 28, 2013.

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Today in the ICU of the Kharkov children’s heart unit.— at Kharkiv Center of Cardiac Surgery.

Chronic Cs-137 incorporation
in children’s organs

Y. I. Bandazhevsky

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EXTRACT

In Belarus’s Gomel region, which was heavily contaminated by fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, we have studied the evolution of the Cs-137 load in the organisms of the rural population, in particular children, since 1990. Children have a higher average burden of Cs-137 compared with that of adults living in the same community.

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