Batten down the hatches !!!
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Russia floats idea of selling seaborned nuclear power plants (http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/04/20/russia_floats_idea_of_selling_seaborned_nuclear_po wer_plants/)

‘‘This is the most dangerous project that has been launched by the atomic sector in the whole world over the past decade,’’ said Ivan Blokov, campaign director of Greenpeace Russia. ‘‘It is scary, as this is basically going to be a floating atomic bomb.’’

Interesting.

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Can you imagine the security arrangements that would be required to have one of these things sitting off your coast, where any bunch of nuts with a rubber boat full of "boom-boom" can just zip in and blast a hole in the hull ?

I mean - they claim the reactor is "industrial strength", but one wonders...

EZ killjoy,

i hope all is well with you.

Thank you for starting the abvoe thread.

i had actualyl read about this a few days ago. Apparently the US was going to have floating Nuke reactors too to powetr the west coast in the 70's but thought it maybe too dangerous so scrapped the idea.

apreently a lot of copuntries would buy them from russia too, like Argentinia, China etc..

Apprently too they are not going to be the biggest of reactors, but quite small in comparative terms to todays super-reactors.

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take it ez
zak

Batten down the hatches !!!If the uranium pellets are encased in silicon then what's the harm?

Well, greenpeace would say that, wouldn't they?

It's a brilliant concept for safe, clean energy. Reactors at sea have an excellent safety record. Combined with the inherent safety of modern self-stabilizing reactors, the safety levels are beyond informed doubt. In the highly-unlikely very-worst case, the deep seabed is the very best disposal area- radiation is extremely well attenuated there, and debris becomes sealed in muck. It's a much safer location for man, the environment, and security than dry-land installations. And what a fantastic turnkey export product. I expect noisy objections to these powerplants, arising entirely out of ignorance and jealosy, if Russia perseveres with the concept (as I hope that they will).

atomic bomb and floating nuclear station are 2 different things. Its like comparing an assassin soldier with a bunny...the only thing they got the same is 95% of their body is made of water.

Yes it is safe. No it will not be another Chernobyl.

I support this project 100%.