Shipping nuclear propulsion start-up CORE POWER, which in November of last year announced a deal with Westinghouse for design and development of floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), has hired an architectural and marine engineering firm to help design FNPPs that could provide energy for operations at U.S. shipping ports.

Glosten, with offices in Seattle, Washington, and Providence, Rhode Island, said it will work with CORE on that company’s floating nuclear power plants (FNPP) concept. CORE’s FNPP is a nearshore infrastructure system that includes a barge-based nuclear power plant along with barge support services, electrical grid integration, and operational teams.

CORE, which has offices in London in the UK, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, Japan, has said its system is easy to transport and rapidly deploy, and could supply an estimated 175 GWh of electricity annually. The company has said its FNPP would allow ports to achieve zero-emissions electrical generation for visiting ships, terminal cranes and equipment, and port vehicles.

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