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 ...

Nuclear engineer Nick Touran is shedding light on a historical near-miss with an idea that was just too ahead of its time 50 years ago: floating nuclear plants. In 1969, Touran writes, an engineer was ...

[Rosatom, 4 April] Rosenergoatom plans to launch a floating nuclear power plant by 2012 near the town of Pevek on Russia's Chukotka peninsula on the East Siberian Sea, with a second to follow in 2019, ...

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 ...

Government officials are increasingly embracing electricity sources that float on water as they seek to curb emissions and prevent land-use battles. Climate-conscious local and state officials are ...

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 ...

A demonstration floating nuclear power plant based on China National Nuclear Corporation's (CNNC's) ACP100S small reactor will be built by 2019, the company announced today. The move comes just days ...

Building new things in an existing city is hard. Usually, new development means tearing down existing structures. Doing so for apartment complexes or new skyscrapers is one thing, but infrastructure ...

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 ...

Two floating solar power plants capable of providing electricity for 1,000 homes have been completed in Japan. Solar power is booming in Japan; the nation doubled its solar power capacity within two ...