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A $200-Million Floating Nuclear Plant?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nothing-can-go-wrong dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'A Floating Chernobyl?,' Popular Science reports that two Russian companies plan to build the world's first floating nuclear power plant to deliver cheap electricity to northern territories. The construction should start next year for a deployment in 2010. The huge barge will be home for two 60-megawatt nuclear reactors which will work until 2050... if everything works fine. It looks like a frightening idea, don't you think? But read more for additional details and pictures of this floating nuclear power plant."

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  1. Re:Safety by MindStalker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google isn't helping me here. But from my understanding after the last San Franciso major earthquake that some nuclear vesseles were docked and hooked up to supply something like a fourth of the cities power.

  2. over 60% of those are non-nuclear... by YesIAmAScript · · Score: 3, Interesting

    60% of these are non-nuclear, and some didn't even occur on ships.

    You might save yourself some trouble if you only looked up relevant info.

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  3. The real news by hcdejong · · Score: 3, Interesting

    is the price tag. AFAIK $200M is an order of magnitude cheaper than current nuclear power plants. How did they get the price down that far?