Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, leaving the service base Rosatomflot on August 23, 2019.
For some experts, nuclear energy — in all forms, large or small — has an important role to play in that transition.
Globally, the construction of conventional nuclear power plants dipped following the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.
Russia has already built or designed nuclear plants — the traditional type — for China, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Slovakia, Egypt and Iran.
“It certainly dampens the excitement abroad,” said John Parsons, a senior lecturer at MIT and a financial economist focused on nuclear energy.
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