Two Russian companies are planning to build the first floating nuclear power plant in the world, near the White Sea. Despite all the protests to nuclear plants across the world, through ages for its causing health hazards, the company Rosenergoatom aims to deliver relatively inexpensive, reliable electricity to 200,000 people living in the hard-to-reach northern territories.
The construction of the $200-million floating plant is scheduled to start next year with a hope for its deployment in 2010. To build this floating nuclear power plant, Rosenergoatom will be teaming team up with the Sevmash shipyard in the Arctic port of Severodvinsk.
