China and Russia work on floating nuclear power plants and nuclear powered shipping

Russia and China have held their first meeting for cooperation in the development of marine nuclear energy for floating power plants and potentially for propulsion of large ships.

China has looked at nuclear commercial shipping

With high oil costs nuclear commercial shipping makes economic sense and would make the environment a lot cleaner

...China has given a set of proposals to Russia for consideration as dialogue continues ahead of the next formal meeting in May 2012. Separately the countries are discussing cooperation for space nuclear power systems, and from mid-2012 Russia will supply radioisotope thermal generators to the Chinese space program.

In more conventional nuclear power, Russia has already built the two-unit Tianwan nuclear power plant in Jiangsu province, where two more are expected to be fully contracted soon. 

Read on at: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/china-and-russia-work-on-floating.html