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I wonder if anyone other than the Russians makes one of those floating nuclear power plants that can be moored at sea?

The US and France do too, but they call them nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines.

That's a bit different though - those reactors use closed cycle liquid sodium coolant, and are not made for supplying power on shore.

I'm talking about something like this:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/is-the-world-ready-for-floating-nu...

Lol they do not use liquid sodium. They are PWRs. Rickover would spin in his grave.

> they do not use liquid sodium. They are PWRs. Rickover would spin in his grave.

Except for the early days of the (one-off) USS Seawolf, before its liquid-sodium reactor was replaced by a LWR. But yes, the KOG would surely come roaring out of his coffin screaming, "WTF are you idiots doing — wasn't once enough?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Seawolf_(SSN-575)

Thorcon [https://thorconpower.com/] has a plan for this, but they're still years away.

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