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Russia sends floating nuclear power plant across the Arctic

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Russia floating nuclear power station sets sail

Well, now, this is interesting. What could go wrong?

Russia has launched a pioneering floating nuclear power station, which will sail 5,000km (3,000 miles) from the Arctic port of Murmansk to Chukotka in the far east.

The nuclear agency Rosenergoatom says the Akademik Lomonosov's mobility will boost the power supply to remote areas.

One of its targets is to power the Chaun-Bilibin mining complex in Chukotka, which includes gold mines.

Greenpeace sees the project as high-risk, in a harsh weather environment.

Critics including Greenpeace point to previous Russian and Soviet nuclear accidents and warn that the Akademik Lomonosov's mission increases the risk of polluting the Arctic - a remote, sparsely-populated region with no big clean-up facilities.

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The launch comes just two weeks after a nuclear-powered engine blew up on a Russian naval test range in the Arctic, killing five nuclear engineers and releasing radiation, though the 1986 Chernobyl disaster was far worse.

The floating power station's highly radioactive spent fuel will be stored on board. Others of similar design will follow to serve remote areas.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
But I think they have control now
Russia Says New Weapon Blew Up in Nuclear Accident Last Week
The failed missile test that ended in an explosion killing five atomic scientists last week on Russia’s White Sea involved a small nuclear power source, according to a top official at the institute where they worked.

The men “tragically died while testing a new special device,” Alexei Likhachev, the chief executive officer of state nuclear monopoly Rosatom, said at their funeral Monday in Sarov, a high-security city devoted to atomic research less than 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow where the institute is based.

The part of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center that employed them is developing small-scale power sources that use “radioactive materials, including fissile and radioisotope materials” for the Defense Ministry and civilian uses, Vyacheslav Soloviev, scientific director of the institute, said in a video shown by local TV.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Yes, i do think Russia can do this. But of course, meddling with nuclear things could go wrong. But I think they have control now
Why do you think that?

Why do you think that the Russians, or anybody else, have a sufficient level of knowledge to control this?

I don't trust anyone that much.
A floating nuclear reactor? That's insane.
Tom
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
Why do you think that?

Why do you think that the Russians, or anybody else, have a sufficient level of knowledge to control this?

I don't trust anyone that much.
A floating nuclear reactor? That's insane.
Tom
Well there have been nuclear submachines for a long time, so why should this be any different?
I guess many doubt it will go well because it is Russia who did it, If it had been any other country from the west i believe nobody would care, but since Russia has gotten a bad name, people think they are evil
 
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