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Russia may supply floating nuclear power plants to India

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

New Delhi, March 4, Itar-Tass/ACSNA/IRNA -- Russia can supply floating
nuclear power plants to India, Deputy Atomic Energy Minister Vladimir 
Asmolov said on Thursday. 
At present, the leasing of such low power plants to India is under
discussion. The rated service life of these power plants, which are 
quite advantageous for India, is 30 to 40 years, Asmolov told 
Itar-Tass. 
This kind of cooperation does not breach the restrictions 
introduced at the international level on proliferation of nuclear 
technologies, he said. 
The cost of one floating nuclear power plant reaches some 180 
million dollars, an Atomic Energy Ministry official told Tass. 
Its rated power is 70 megawatt of electric and 140 giga-calories 
of thermal energy, enough to provide heat to a town with a population 
of 50,000. 
An average payback period for this plant is eight years. 
Russia may build the first floating nuclear power plant in 
Severodvinsk in three years. 
The Atomic Energy Ministry noted that southeast Asian countries 
take great interest to the floating nuclear power plant project. A 
floating nuclear power plant can be ferried though the North Sea Way 
to Indonesia, and back to Russia, after the expiration of its service 
life. Russian specialists can provide maintenance for the plant by the
fly-in, fly-out method. 
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