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Wooden It Floats 12" - American Floating Sailboat Model

Our new It Floats - American model salboat is freshly designed with increased craftsmanship and is our debut float alone sailboat. Available in 9 different styles/colors, this sailboat can be taken into the water and enjoyed by anyone. Included with your purchase is a wooden base to prominently display the model after use. These sleek and elegant wooden model sailboats have seen careful attention paid to every detail. Bring a winning spirit and nautical flair to the décor of any room with the clean lines and graceful features of these model sailing boats. Attaching sails is a simple process typically taking no more than 2 minutes.

Handcrafted from solid wood by our master artisans

Patriotic red, white and blue colors used to decorate ship hull, wooden base included with sailboat to prominently display model, our functional floating sailboat is waterproof . it floats, suits any room or decor with clean lines and simple colors.

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Wooden It Floats 12" - Pink Floating Sailboat Model

Our new It Floats - Pink model salboat is freshly designed with increased craftsmanship and is our debut float alone sailboat. Available in 9 different styles/colors, this sailboat can be taken into the water and enjoyed by anyone. Included with your purchase is a wooden base to prominently display the model after use. These sleek and elegant wooden model sailboats have seen careful attention paid to every detail. Bring a winning spirit and nautical flair to the décor of any room with the clean lines and graceful features of these model sailing boats. Attaching sails is a simple process typically taking no more than 2 minutes.

Handcrafted from solid wood by our master artisans

Wooden base included with sailboat to prominently display model, our functional floating sailboat is waterproof . it floats, suits any room or decor with clean lines and simple colors.

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• Suits any room or decor with clean lines and simple colors
• Their functional floating sailboat is waterproof
• Hand-crafted from solid wood by their master artisans
• Wooden base included with sailboat to prominently display model
• Attaching sails is a simple process typically taking no more than 2 minutes

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Very small and mine was missing pieces. Wayfair was fair and made it good! It was cute just not as described!

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Very cute sailboats. I have a few throughout my home. I would buy them again, I like the different colors of the sails and boat bottoms.

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Excellent hobby project.

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Russia sends nuclear fuel across arctic on ship with history of safety violations, weeks after sending crude oil on non-ice class tankers through the arctic, russian authorities shipped nuclear fuel across the northern sea route on a cargo ship not specialized in the transport of nuclear fuel. ship records also show a host of safety deficiencies during past inspections. the nuclear fuel traveled from murmansk to pevek to resupply the floating nuclear power plant akademik lomonosov..

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Five years after towing the world’s only floating nuclear power plant into the Arctic, Russia’s State Nuclear Energy Corporation, Rosatom, delivered a fresh batch of nuclear fuel to the facility.

The nuclear material traveled along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) from Murmansk to Pevek aboard the cargo ship  Smp Arkhangelsk .

Ship records indicate that the vessel has a long history of safety violations and deficiencies recorded during inspections over the last decade. The vessel’s owner, Northern Shipping Company, has also been  under sanctions by the US  since May 2022.

The transport of nuclear fuel customarily occurs on highly specialized vessels under strict international guidelines. The carrying of nuclear fuel on a conventional cargo ship across the Arctic’s icy waters is a cause for concern, according to industry experts interviewed by HNN.

The nuclear fuel was  manufactured by Rosatom fuel company “TVEL”  in Elektrostal near Moscow before it was dispatched aboard  Smp Arkhangelsk  from Murmansk on September 15. The vessel arrived in Pevek 10 days later and took up position next to Akademik Lomonosov.

Based on satellite images analyzed by HNN the transfer of fuel took approximately 10 days.

A history of deficiencies

The vessel, constructed in 2002 by Damen Shipyard in Romania, has passed through the hands of seven different owners before arriving with its current operator, Northern Shipping Company.

Port inspections going back more than a decade reveal violations ranging from missing voyage data recorder, lack of rescue boats and defect fire pumps, to inoperative auxiliary engines and MARPOL pollution prevention violations.

While some of the violations were minor and none were severe enough to necessitate the detention of the vessel, they do paint a picture of an aging ship with ongoing deficiencies. Available public records also do not show any inspections since 2021.

“Considering this a voyage with dangerous cargo, it is pushing the limits,” explains Sigurd Enge, Senior Advisor on Shipping at Bellona Foundation, an international environmental NGO headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

“The risk connected to this vessel, on the Northern Sea Route in October is high, and based on their [safety inspection] track record, is very high,” continues Enge, who is one of the most experienced advisers at Bellona, working on marine safety.

“The Port State Controls with violation indicates that there is a high risk that an incident can occur. And with a history of lack of safety equipment, inadequate propulsion and auxiliary machinery, certificates and fire pumps, an incident can quickly turn into a serious event in terms of firefighting, safety equipment and skills.”

Not following international customs

The transport of nuclear materials in international waters is highly regulated, with a short list of specialized vessels, such as British freighters  Pacific Egret  or  Pacific Grebe , doing the work. Nuclear material must also be stored in highly secured containers.

The use of a ship not specialized in the transport of nuclear fuel shows limited options available to Russia “as there are ships that carry out this type of loading in Europe, for example,” explains Hervé Baudu, Chief Professor of Maritime Education at the French Maritime Academy (ENSM)

“This is clearly a case where Russia is proceeding in its own waters and territories with the means at its disposal. Admittedly, the ship does not comply with international requirements, but let’s hope that the containers carrying the waste or fuel do,” he continues.

Based on the type deficiencies and where they were registered the ship is “not used to international customs and regulations,” explains Baudu.

Risks related to time of year

The vessel’s lower Arc4 ice-class is also a cause for concern, with Enge calling it “not so reassuring.”

“To operate on the NSR at this time of year involves a risk. In October, the ice conditions can change fast, with new ice formation and strong wind and various temperatures the ice cover can move fast.”

“It seems that the authorities are willing to carry out voyages ‘at any cost’.” Hervé Baudu, Chief Professor of Maritime Education at the French Maritime Academy

Given the possibility of rapidly changing conditions, including weather and ice conditions, “the risk for dangerous cargo transport with not well-equipped ships is unacceptable,” concludes Sigurd.

This holds especially true given Russia’s history related to the dumping of radioactive materials and sunken submarines across the Arctic in the Barents and the Kara Sea.

Pushing ahead despite sanctions

The shipment of nuclear fuel  follows the initial transport of crude oil to China across the Arctic  on aging non-ice class oil tankers a few weeks ago.

“We are seeing violations of environmental rights with oil tankers from a fleet that is black and potentially dangerous as long as there is war in Ukraine,” elaborates Baudu.

Enge concurs that sanctions have impacted operations on the NSR.

“The need to use the route for transport eastward makes the government more willing to push the limits for safety and “clean and safe operations in general. It seems that the authorities are willing to carry out voyages ‘at any cost’.”

Rosatom and TVEL did not respond to requests for comment.

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First refuelling for Russia’s Akademik Lomonosov floating NPP

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The FNPP includes two KLT-40S reactor units. In such reactors, nuclear fuel is not replaced in the same way as in standard NPPs – partial replacement of fuel once every 12-18 months. Instead, once every few years the entire reactor core is replaced with and a full load of fresh fuel.

The KLT-40S reactor cores have a number of advantages compared with standard NPPs. For the first time, a cassette core was used, which made it possible to increase the fuel cycle to 3-3.5 years before refuelling, and also reduce by one and a half times the fuel component in the cost of the electricity produced. The operating experience of the FNPP provided the basis for the design of the new series of nuclear icebreaker reactors (series 22220). Currently, three such icebreakers have been launched.

The Akademik Lomonosov was connected to the power grid in December 2019, and put into commercial operation in May 2020.

Electricity generation from the FNPP at the end of 2023 amounted to 194 GWh. The population of Pevek is just over 4,000 people. However, the plant can potentially provide electricity to a city with a population of up to 100,000. The FNPP solved two problems. Firstly, it replaced the retiring capacities of the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant, which has been operating since 1974, as well as the Chaunskaya Thermal Power Plant, which is more than 70 years old. It also supplies power to the main mining enterprises located in western Chukotka. In September, a 490 km 110 kilovolt power transmission line was put into operation connecting Pevek and Bilibino.

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