Russia has started building the world's first floating nuclear plant, designed to provide power for remote areas.The plant, costing $200m, is due to be launched in 2010.
Russia's atomic energy ministry (Minatom) announced that the base unit for the plant had been prepared in Severodvinsk, in Russia's Arctic north.
The plant - to be called Akademik Lomonosov - will supply electricity to Sevmash, a shipbuilding firm which produces nuclear-powered submarines.
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