Predictive assessment of radiation and environmental safety at operation of floating nuclear power plant «Akademik Lomonosov»

The Project 20870 Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP), operated in the town of Pevek (Chaunsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug), is the world's northernmost nuclear power plant. The FTNPP consists of a floating power unit (FPU), a shore platform with facilities that provide electricity and heat to consumers, and hydraulic engineering structures that ensure the safe parking of the FPU in the water area. The station is intended to supply power to industrial enterprises, the seaport and the city's housing complex. The project has been implemented since 2007. From the moment of start-up to the present there is practically no information in the results of this NPP operation after the start-up. The authors of the article have tried to fill this gap by making their own predictive evaluation of radiation and ecological safety of the FNPP operation based on the analysis of operating results of the prototypes and design documentation.