New documents show cost of Russian floating nuclear power plant skyrockets
Source: Bellona
The new cost of building Russia’s floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) the Akademik Lomonosov, has spiked from an original estimate of 9 billion rubles ($140 million) in 2006 to a current 37 billion rubles ($ 740 million) official Russian sources report, citing government documents.
The documents, published on the government’s appropriations and regulations portal (in Russian) show the government will now be co-financing the project, which was initially headed up by Rosenergoatom, Russia’s nuclear utility. The documents indicate the utility is running short on funds, and so will be receiving taxpayer support, the Russian government’s official print mouthpiece Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported (in Russian).
The FNPP, called the Akademic Lomonosov, is a long-standing prize project of state nuclear corporation Rosatom, which says the barge and its two nuclear 35-megawatt reactors will be a revolution in delivering power to Russia’s far flung regions. Independent sources say 15 countries world-wide are interested in leasing Russian floating nuclear power plants, most significantly China.
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“This is clearly a project without any cost control, and I suspect the price will grow even more if they manage to get this FNPP to float sometime in the distant future,” he said. “I also fear that the cost of operating the plants and dismantling them have also been largely underestimated, which will only add to the final cost.”
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this thing to the Kamchatka Peninsula? God help us. 
