“I feel like I’m one of the first cosmonauts going into space,” said Vladimir Irminku, one of the chief engineers of the Akademik Lomonosov, as he stood on the deck of the giant, box-like platform on a chilly summer morning at Kola Bay in the Barents Sea.
The Guardian: Fears of ‘Chornobyl on ice’ as Russia prepares floating nuclear plant
A general view taken on May 18, 2018 shows the Russian northern port city of Murmansk. Akademik Lomonosov, the world's, so far, only nuclear floating power unit (FPU), has arrived at the roadstead of the port of Murmansk where it is waiting to enter the port area on May 19, 2018, for being loaded with nuclear fuel before heading to eastern Siberia.
