Floating reactor complexes

Other methods of floating the reactors should be investigated to determine which will serve best and will be most cost effective. The final floating system will be on the same order of size as today s aircraft carriers. While the size is similar, the complexity is less. The reduction in complexity is the result of the reactor complex having far simpler mission. Once placed it has no need to move, defend it self or attack anyone. Its only tasks are generation of energy and system maintenanee. 

A transportable (floating) reactor unit based on the SVBR-75/100 factory assembled and fuelled reactor this unit will be constructed at the factories of the supplier country. Afterward, it would be delivered to the user-country and leased for a long period. The factories of the supplier-country would commission and operate the transportable unit in the containment of the stationary complex and, upon the expiration of the reactor core lifetime, the reactor unit will decommissioned and replaced by a new one ... 

Creation of floating power-desalination complexes is another prospective application of the propulsion reactor plants. It is a fact that drinkable water production has become an acute problem for many regions of the world, e.g.. North Afiica, the Near East, India etc. Drinkable water is also expensive in northern regions of Russia. 

Among a number of different projects, IAEA is considering floating power desalination complexes, in particular those with tiie marine nuclear reactor plant of KLT-40 type and desalination facilities of distillation and reverse-osmosis types. The appropriate distillation facilities in Russia are designed by the Sverd Nil ChimMash Institute (Ecaterinburg), while reverse-osmosis facilities are produced in particular by the Canadian firm "Candesal Inc". 

A power and desalination complex (a cogeneration plant) based on a distillation desalinating plant (DDP) includes the reactor installation the extraction turbine the intermediate loop and the desalination plant (see Fig. IV-11). Heat and part of the electric power generated by the floating power unit are used for desalination the rest of the electric power is supplied to the consumers. 

V-2] PANOV, Yu.K., FADEEV, Yu.P., BARANEAEV, Yu.D., The water desalination complex based on the ABV-type reactor plant, Floating Nuclear Energy Plants for Seawater Desalination, IAEA-TECDOC-940, pp. 23-28, Vienna (1995). 

In addition to this, a unified nuclear propulsion and power complex consisting of nuclear ships and floating cogeneration plants based on a common type of reactor installation and supported by a common maintenance infrastructure could effectively solve the problems of energy supply to autonomous consumers, such as those in the North-eastern regions of the Russian Federation, at minimum cost. 

VI-2] MITENKOV, F.M., PANOV, YU.K., POLUNICHEV, V.I., BELIAEV, V.M., The KLT-40S reactor system for the floating unit of the thermal power plant. The Strategy of Nuclear Power Development in Russia and Countries of the Asian-Pacific Basin (Paper presented at the scientific and technical conf, Moscow, 1998). [VI-3] MITENKOV, F.M., POLUNICHEV, V.I., Small nuclear heat and power co-generation stations and water desalination complexes on the basis of marine reactor plants, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol.173, Nos. 1-3, pp. 183-191 (1997). 

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF INTEGRAL REACTOR (RIT) FOR FLOATING POWER AND DESALINATION COMPLEX... 

In recent years OKBM in cooperation with Russian enterprises under the leadership of the State Scientific Centre of the Russian Federation IPPE (Obninsk, the Russian Federation) has carried out multi-variant conceptual design studies of floating nuclear power and desalination complex (FNPDC). Options considered for FPNDC were different in the number and types of reactor and turbine plants, desalination plants and their interface circuits. The Design Bureau Lazurit (Russia) has developed one of the most prospective options for FPNDC. It is based on an integral reactor design RIT. 

AVERBAKH B.A., et al.. Small floating power unit and desalination complex on the basis of modernized marine-type reactor installations. World Nuclear Association (Proc. Spring Symposium, Moscow, May 2003, in Russian). 

The VBER-300 reactor is a small-to-medium power source for land-based NPPs and cogeneration plants as well as for floating NPPs and desalination complexes. The applications are ... 

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