Floating nuclear has been around for decades, but it is still less developed than floating solar, and possibly even less developed than the fledging floating wind sector. The first floating wind farm was a 30 MW system commissioned in Scotland in 2017, while the first floating solar came online in Japan in 2007. But the first floating nuclear plant belongs to the US Army and has been commissioned in 1967 – a pressurized water reactor built inside a converted Liberty Ship. Fast forward around 50 years later and during the 2010s Russia began toying with the idea of grid scale floating nuclear. Today, the Akademik Lomonosov – a 70 MW floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) opened in 2019 – stands…