Mobile autonomous nuclear power plants were developed by Russian scientists for remote Arctic villages and deposits. This was told by the deputy director of NIKIET named after Dollezhal Alexander Pimenov during the Murmansk International Business Week, Murman reports.. en.
According to him, the generated mini-nuclear power plant will be twice as cheap (20 rubles per kilowatt-hour) as the diesel engines that run on imported fuel. (30-50 rubles per kilowatt-hour). As an example, the designers called the mobile installation "ATGOR", placed on a car semitrailer. It is capable of delivering 3.5 megawatts of thermal power and 1 megawatt of electrical energy. Service life of the plant is 60 years. Re-load the nuclear fuel into it once every ten years.
Original article: Mobile mini-NPPs developed for Arctic villages.