First Deputy Director General of Rosatom Kirill Komarov told a press conference on Nov. 20 that the Russian state-owned company plans to develop a version of its Arctic floating nuclear power station but for tropical zones. “We are currently working on a new project, where we want to optimize this floating power plant,” Komarov said according to TASS. “We are thinking of making concurrently an Arctic and a tropical version for this project, so that to have an opportunity of sending it to other countries with a different climate, in particular, to work not merely for power generation but also for water desalination, which is a current issue for countries with hot climate.”