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Floating Nuclear Power Station
angrysponge writes "
Russia to Build World's First Floating Nuclear Power Station for $200,000. I don't know what impresses me more, the engineering chutzpah or low-ball pricetag." From the article: "The mini-station will be located in the White Sea, off the coast of the town of Severodvinsk (in the Arkhangelsk region in northern Russia). It will be moored near the Sevmash plant, which is the main facility of the State Nuclear Shipbuilding Center. The FNPP will be equipped with two power units using KLT-40S reactors. The plant will meet all of Sevmash's energy requirements for just 5 or 6 cents per kilowatt. If necessary, the plant will also be able to supply heat and desalinate seawater."
Now electricity is being offshored. When's it going to end?
they bought the fuel rods on ebay.ru!
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I remember during the "energy crisis" of the early seventies, one of our colleagues at a Navy laboratory that happened to be near a submarine base suggested that we tap into the multi-megawatt output of docked nuclear subs to supply some of our lab's power. Needless to say, the "no nukes" eco-freaks that worked at the lab came unglued. I never knew if he was serious or just trying to get a rise out of people. If the latter, it certainly worked.
Must be a misprint, or due to government subsidy
You're suggesting that the Russian Federal Nuclear Energy Agency (government) is being subsidized by the government?
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myselfmusic
Wow who would have thought it:
"If necessary, the plant will also be able to supply heat and desalinate seawater."
Presumably supplying heat by, er, going critical and blowing up, desalinating seawater by, er, vaporising it and turning it into an enormous cloud of steam?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
It's the Russians--> they never mess up...
Microsoft is like...no, it's much worse.
I just hope the company that makes this isn't the same company that makes their submarines.
... or the company that builds their nuclear power stations.
Oh, wait.
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