The Akademik Lomonosov holds two KLT-40S reactor units, originally designed to power Russian icebreakers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The proposed floating power plant will reportedly be able to ...

A floating Russian nuclear power station that environmentalists are calling a potential “Chernobyl on ice” set sail Friday on a 3,000-mile journey across the Arctic. The Akademik Lomonosov, which left ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Correction news every morning. The Akademik Lomonosov, moored in the Siberian port of Pevek, is not the world’s first floating nuclear ...

Annual maintenance has been completed at the Akademik Lomonosov floating NPP in Pevek, with critical reactor work finished ...

Despite criticism from environmental advocates, Russia’s first-ever floating nuclear power plant is ready to start work. Can it withstand tsunamis? And it is more suitable to compare it with Chernobyl ...

Dubbed a “Chernobyl on ice” and a “nuclear Titanic” by one environmental group, Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant is almost ready for its maiden voyage to a remote port town across the ...

Russia’s floating nuclear power plant has for the first time achieved a sustained chain reaction of one of the two reactors at its mooring in Murmansk harbour last week. The Akademik Lomonosov’s ...

A Russia-designed floating nuclear power plant has begun its journey through the Arctic Ocean this month causing concerns in Alaska, a report said. The 472-foot barge launched in St. Petersburg, ...

Russia's Akademik Lomonosov sailed from Murmansk on Friday for the remote Chukotka region in the far east, not far from Alaska. The floating plant will supply power to people in the region, but ...

Russia has launched a controversial floating nuclear reactor, despite warnings from environmentalists the vessel poses a dire safety risk. The Akademik Lomonosov left the Arctic port of Murmansk on ...

Russia's floating nuclear power plant, dubbed the "nuclear Titanic," has arrived in the Arctic port of Murmansk ahead of its first mission, in spite of criticism from environmental campaigners. The ...