China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Algeria are interested in floating nuclear power plant

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Russia Just Sent a Floating Nuclear Power Plant Out to Sea
The ship is being called a “floating Chernobyl” by environmental activists.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...russia-siberia

The vessel’s actual name is the Akademik Lomonosov (after the Russian polymath who discovered the atmosphere of Venus) and it doesn’t contain its own propulsion system, so the nuclear barge must be towed by smaller boats. The power plant on board consists of two-nuclear reactors capable of delivering a combined 70 MW of power, approximately enough for a city of 200,000 people.

Originally, the Akademik Lomonosov was meant to be loaded with nuclear fuel and tested in St. Petersburg, but these plans were abandoned after Norway and Finland put pressure on Russia to load the uranium fuel elsewhere. Greenpeace has expressed concerns with putting a nuclear power plant to sea. Rosatom is planning a production line to mass produce these floating reactors for sale to other countries.