In July 1968, the U.S. Army sent the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, the Sturgis, to the Panama Canal to help overcome a regional hydroelectric power plant shortage, which was driven by a ...

Floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs) may not immediately spring to mind as providing a solution to several of today’s key global challenges – but FNPP development is emerging as a means of ...

When the Green New Deal was proposed last year, it called for the United States to become fully energy independent, moving to 100% renewable energy sources within the next decade. It specifically ...

Samsung Heavy Industries announced Wednesday that it has completed the conceptual design for its Compact Molten Salt Reactor Power Barge, a floating offshore nuclear power plant, and has received ...

The world's only floating nuclear power plant has produced its first billion kilowatt-hours of energy since being opened in 2020. The Akademik Lomonosov Power Plant in the Russian Arctic region of ...

Deputy CEO for Shipbuilding, Floating Power Units and Marine Engineering at Rosatom’s Machine Engineering Division, Vladimir Aptekarev, on the potential for floating power units. How a 100 MW FPU ...

How can we provide a reliable supply of energy far out to sea, or on an island, or in a coastal community? The typical answer is by using fossil-fuelled generators. But as efforts to decarbonize ...

The American Bureau of Shipping, Core Power and Athlos Energy are to collaborate on the evaluation of the potential of deploying floating nuclear power plants to meet the energy demands of islands, ...

Iraq ordered two floating power plants from Turkey’s Karpowership to help alleviate a growing electricity crisis. Karpowership unit BKPS signed a contract with Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity to supply ...

The 41 MW facility was built by Korean developer Scotra with solar modules provided by South Korea-based manufacturer Hanwha Q-Cells. It was deployed on a water reservoir at the Hapcheon dam, in the ...