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Detailed explanation-1: -Russia has launched the worlds first floating nuclear power station Akademik Lomonosov at a ceremony in the port of the far northern city of Murmansk, where it will be loaded with nuclear fuel before heading to eastern Siberia. The 21,500-tonne ship was named after Academician Mikhail Lomonosov.

Detailed explanation-2: -Akademik Lomonosov is the world’s first floating nuclear reactor. Akademik Lomonosov was named after 18th-century Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov. Recently, It is completed its epic 5,000 km Arctic voyage in 22 days, despite environmentalists warning of serious risks to the region.

Detailed explanation-3: -Russia’s first nuclear power plant, and the first in the world to produce electricity in 1954, was the 5 MWe Obninsk reactor.

Detailed explanation-4: -Akademik Lomonosov (Russian: ) is a non-self-propelled power barge that operates as the first Russian floating nuclear power station.

Detailed explanation-5: -The world’s first floating nuclear plant was a 10-megawatt reactor built by the US for its military base at the Panama Canal in the 1960s. At present, Russia is the only country with an operating sea-based nuclear power platform, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.