Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle 255
Vincent West writes with news of a Russian project currently underway to populate the Arctic Circle with 70-megawatt, floating nuclear power plants. Russia has been planning these nuclear plants for quite some time, with construction beginning on the prototype in 2007. It's due to be finished next year, and an agreement was reached in February to build four more. According to the Guardian:
"The 70-megawatt plants, each of which would consist of two reactors on board giant steel platforms, would provide power to Gazprom, the oil firm which is also Russia's biggest company. It would allow Gazprom to power drills needed to exploit some of the remotest oil and gas fields in the world in the Barents and Kara seas. The self-propelled vessels would store their own waste and fuel and would need to be serviced only once every 12 to 14 years."
Only one problem.... (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
Re:Only one problem.... (Score:5, Funny)
It would be quite a mutation, to allow them to swim 20000km from the Antarctic to the Arctic...
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only one problem.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only one problem.... (Score:2, Funny)
Forget the penguins, it's the Kangaroos that you should worry about.
This is a great idea. (Score:3, Funny)
That would be cool.
Re:Only one problem.... (Score:5, Funny)
Well that depends. Are they African or European?
Re:Only one problem.... (Score:4, Funny)
I haven't yet heard anyone tell me if they were unladen or not.
Re:Nuclear submarines (Score:3, Funny)
yes dual core. It is how they operate their underwater 30MW lasers. On their submarines
Re:Only one problem.... (Score:5, Funny)
is Major Disaster related to Colonel Panic or General Protection Fault?
Re:Ranting against "evil Russians" to commence... (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds like our ZPM is out of power (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like our ZPM is out of power
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Re:Only one problem.... (Score:4, Funny)