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MOSCOW, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Russia's Rosenergoatom has said it will build eight floating nuclear power plants by 2015.
"In April 2007, the Sevmash shipyard will launch the construction of the first floating thermal power unit with the KLT40C reactor. It is planned to complete the deliveries of all the assembly parts by the end of 2008, and complete the pilot project in 2010," Sergei Krysov, deputy director general of the company, told an international conference.
The comments were reported by the Itar-Tass news agency.
The news agency said the floating reactor will have five radiation protection barriers, and can withstand a 6-magnitude earthquake and a plane crash.
Rosenergoatom said one floating plant saves about 150 million cubic meters of gas a year.
"Gazprom displayed considerable interests in floating nuclear power plants, as it needs at least five floating power units to develop new deposits in Yamal and the Kola peninsula," Krysov said, Itar-Tass reported.
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