Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has issued an order for the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Development and Ministry of Industry & Trade, together with the Central Bank and Rosatom, to prepare proposals on providing a soft loan 25 years for the construction of eight nuclear floating power units (PEBs – Plavuchikh EnergoBlokov) for the foreign market and four similar facilities for Russia. The estimated long-term loan rate should not exceed 3-5%. Proposals must be submitted before 2 October.
Russia launched the world’s first floating nuclear power plant (PATES – Plavuchaya Atomnaya TeploElektroStantsiya) of the 20870 project in December 2019, now operating in Peveka (Chukotka). The FNPP includes a PEB, Akademik Lomonosov with two KLT-40S reactor units. Future PEBs will have larger RITM reactors.
