Russian energy firm proposes new shipyard for building floating nuclear power plants

Baird Maritime · last updated March 4, 2025 – 7:28 PM

The company expects to issue its final decision on the project in the spring of 2025, though design work and site surveys have already commenced and will last until the autumn of 2026. The actual construction works are scheduled to begin in 2027 pending final approval.

Russia has only one nuclear-powered FPU, the 144-metre Akademik Lomonosov (pictured), which was delivered to Rosatom by state-owned Baltic Shipyard in 2019.

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