A $200-Million Floating Nuclear Plant?

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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[644bd346996]

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Re:Safety

[AndyElf]

I'll take the bate. Exactly where do US troops in Afghanstan "restoring infrastruture?" And to start with, what business did US troops had coming into the country at all? Oh, the former ally and a bunch of former trainees in tertrorist/partisan warfare have turned their guns against US? Well, does it not go back to the same year when USSR did go to Afghanistan to protect the elected government? Sure, that government was a Commie one -- but don't people have freedom of thought and belief? Oh, that's only "American people" is it not? And only as long as it matches with the current "doctrine," eh? And does not contradict the religious right's view of life, universe and everything...

See -- you can turn this type of thing each and every way.

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[c6gunner]

I'll take the bate.

The word is "bait". And I'm not fishing.

Exactly where do US troops in Afghanstan "restoring infrastruture?"

If you need to ask that, you must be REALLY clueless about the effort on the ground. I don't have the energy to give you a full briefing on it, but if you type "reconstruction effort Afghanistan" into google, you'll get all the relevant info you want.

Sure, that government was a Commie one -- but don't people have freedom of thought and belief?

They do....in a democracy. Problem is, in your commie paradise people were no better off than they are today in some of these theocratic hellholes. No freedoms except the freedom to be persecuted at any time without reason. You can try to moralize all you want but the fact is that the only reason you still have the right to free speech is because the US won the cold war. If the USSR had emerged as the victor, we'd be living in a much different world today.

See -- you can turn this type of thing each and every way.

Huh?

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[drinkypoo]

Problem is, in your commie paradise people were no better off than they are today in some of these theocratic hellholes. No freedoms except the freedom to be persecuted at any time without reason.

Right, theocratic hellholes like the USA.

You don't actually have any of these freedoms you think you have, because you can be hauled off to a secret prison and denied your right to a fair trial any ol' time. We have knowingly held US citizens at gitmo and denied them trial, and if you think that's the only place we're doing that, you're a fucking chump. Actually, we've held plenty of people at regular prisons and denied them trial, too.