World’s first floating nuclear power plant to begin operating in Russia in 2016

[PoliticAverse]

In three years, Russia will have the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, capable of providing energy and heat to hard-to-get areas as well as drinking water to arid regions.

The unique vessel should be operational by 2016, the general director of Russia’s biggest shipbuilders, the Baltic Plant, Aleksandr Voznesensky told reporters at the 6th International Naval Show in St. Petersburg.

The Akademik Lomonosov is to become the spearhead of a series of floating nuclear power plants, which Russia plans to put into mass-production.

The floating power-generating unit, aimed at providing energy to large industrial enterprises, port cities and offshore gas and oil-extracting platforms, was designed on the basis of nuclear reactors which are equipped on the icebreakers ships. The technology has proved itself for over 50 years of successful operation in extreme Arctic conditions.

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http://rt.com/news/floating-nuclear-plant-russia-759/

[pscot]

1. What could possibly go wrong?

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. The Condi Rice factor will be in play sooner of later:

"No one could have foreseen...."

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Nothing that hasn't happened several times over already.

Quite a number of operating reactors have gone directly into the deep in naval ships. 4 or 6, ignoring all the atomic weapons lost at sea, and fuel intentionally dumped.

Not really sure this is any different from Russia's fleet of non-military nuclear icebreakers.


That said, probably not a stupendous idea.

[Throckmorton]

4. USS Sturgis or MH-1A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH-1A

[WovenGems]

5. Hmm

Doesn't a nuclear powered naval craft already qualify as such? With a slight modification I am sure those ships could plug into the grid while in port.