Russian floating NPP was included in the list of the most important innovations of 2010

The first world floating nuclear thermal power plant (FTNPP) being constructed in Russia was included in the list of the most important innovations of 2010 made by L’Usine Nouvelle, a respectable weekly French magazine.
The floating NPP in this list neighbors the revolutionary Apples’s tablet PC iPad, American hypersonic cruise missile X-51A Waverider, floating wind-driven electric power plant being constructed in Norway, synthetic bacteria cell, completely synthesized by means of a computer program using chemical test-tube reagents, and as well the newest lithium batteries enabling a car to drive 600 km without recharging.
L’Usine Nouvelle – a French weekly issue published since 1891 and devoted to the problems of industry and technologies.
Rosatom is constructing the first FTNPP at the Baltic plant in Saint-Petersburg. In June of 2010 a floating power unit consisting of a flush-desk dumb vessel supplied by two icebreaker type reactor plants KLT-40C was lowered on the water. The installed power capacity of each reactor is 35 MW, thermal capacity – 140 GCal. The potential operation time is 38 years.
In the remote areas where pulling the power lines or fuel delivery are unprofitable, FTNPP construction and operation is significantly more advantageous than the construction and operation of ground power plants.
The components for the reactor plants of the floating power units are produced by Nizhny Novgorod Afrikantov OKBM, steam-turbine plants are supplied by OJSC Kaluga Turbine Works. The FTNPP General Engineer is Atomenergo CJSC (Saint-Petersburg).