US Energy company Core Power has enlisted naval architecture and marine engineering firm Glosten to help its team design a floating nuclear power plant to power ports in the United States.
Created by Core Power, the concept is a near-shore infrastructure system that includes a barge-based nuclear power plant, barge support services, electrical grid integration, and operational teams.
Designed to be easy to transport and rapidly deploy, the plant would provide an estimated 175GWh of electricity per year, and would allow ports to achieve zero-emissions electrical generation for visiting ships, terminal cranes and equipment, and port vehicles.
Glosten will develop the operational concept and design the floating facility, and establish a regulatory path for the barge, navigate site location approvals, and identify a potential supply chain network for the poject's fabrication, assembly, integration, transportation, and installation.
The project is currently in the concept phase and is being designed with the intent to serve a non-specific port located in the southern United States.
