> Off the Siberian coast, not far from Alaska, a Russian ship has been docked at port for four years. The Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, sends energy to around 200,000 people on land using next-wave nuclear technology: small modular reactors.
From my cursory analysis, Rosatom has researched, built and exploited a number of newer nuclear technologies. We don't hear much about them because Russia is much like China the subject of abjectly poor knowledge and analysis. In the west, large parapublic actors like Framatome (insert name of the day here) were castrated in their efforts. Western private sector initiatives exist but at this stage, they're years behind the real world experience of Russia.