Russia says its sea-based nuclear power plant is safe. Critics call it a ‘Floating Chernobyl.’

The U.S. Army had its own sea-based floating nuclear power plant. The MH-1A Sturgis had a pressurized water nuclear reactor, and was part of the Army Nuclear Power Program. It provided 10MW of electricity for the Panama Canal Zone from 1968 to 1975.

Interestingly enough, the MH-1A first into operation at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, in 1967, and provided electrical power to Fort Belvoir from 1967 to 1968.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH-1A

For the far northern arctic communities, these mobile power plants do make sense. Russia's Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant, destined for Pevek, in the Chukotka region in Russia's Far East, should be scheduled to pick up the electrical load for the world's most northern-based nuclear power plant, the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant, which has operated since 1974. Bilibino's EGP-6 nuclear reactors are based on a scaled-down RBMK design.

Note that Chernobyl's four reactors were of the RBMK-1000 design.

It seems to me that overall risk will be reduced with the changeover from the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant to the Akademik Lomonosov.

It's only as safe as the crew working in it.

CW5 Jack Cardwell Nothing New on a Certain Level. Think about all the Russian and US Nuclear Submarines operating in the Arctic. This is Just a Dedicated Scaled Up Surface Version. Also Lets Not Forget the Russian Nuclear Powered Ice Breaker that has Operated there before.