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This document proposes a new output to amend the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS) and to revise the Code of Safety for Nuclear Merchant Ships (resolution A.491 (XII)) in order to update the current requirements for the design, construction and operation of self-propelled merchant ships with nuclear power plants (NPP), in accordance with the latest technological changes (including the emergence of new reactors of various types and new fields of application (both ships and non-self-propelled nuclear floating power units (FPUs))), and also for the purpose of extending their application to non-self-propelled nuclear floating power units to regulate the safety of FPUs.