Abstract: Floating nuclear power plants have been paid much attention around the world due to the advantages of modularization, multipurpose, flexible operation, transshipment, strong adaptability. Therefore, floating nuclear power plants could result in widespread application foreground and broad development space. However, because of the special deployment scenes and transportable characteristic in marine environment, the transportation issues of floating nuclear power plants as well as corresponding safety and legal problems would occur inevitably. This paper studies the different deployment scenes of a floating nuclear power plant, and the safety and legal issues under different deployment scenes during international transport are summarized and discussed. What’s more, the possible suggested solutions for international transport from the legal, security, and emergency aspects are analyzed emphatically. This study may produce significant meanings to the development of the floating nuclear power plants and to the making and improvement for related conventions and rules on the international transport of floating nuclear power plants.

Key words: floating nuclear power plant, overseas deployment scenes, international transportation, safety and legal issues