Aleksandr Nikitin - Translated by Charles Digges
The idea of building floating nuclear power plants for civilian use originated in the United States in 1974. The American military establishment built the 10 megawatt FNPP “Sturgis,” which was used between 1967 and 1976 in the Panama Canal during the Vietnam War.
That the beginning of the 1980s, the Russian military establishment ordered the Volnolom -3 FNPP projects for use on the Ministry of Defence site on the Arctic Island of Novaya (…)