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Floating Nuclear Power Plant Seized By Court
An anonymous reader writes "The world's first nuclear barge has been impounded while still under construction — but not because of looming safety or environmental concerns. The shipyard's parent companies are embroiled in bankruptcy proceedings, and Russia's state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, was worried that a creditor would end up with this valuable nuclear asset, and asked the bankruptcy court to seize the barge to protect it."
Lazy summer days on the ol' fission barge
Ship: Noun. "A hole in the water into which one pours money."
So... it's not nuclear...just a barge. I'm glad I'm here on Slashdot to keep up with important news like this.
Siezed? O RLY? Maybe Seazed! Or...maybe.... Seized!
From TFA:
In 2009, Rosatom announced plans to send a fleet of floating nuclear power stations to the Arctic, where they could power deep-sea drilling for oil and gas.
There's so much wrong in that meme that I'm going to have to go lie down and hope I forget it happened.
Using nuclear power on a ship?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
They're just stealing this to sell to a greedy developer who wants to turn it into a floating football stadium.
This is the thread to put all of the "In Soviet Russia" jokes
LAND SHARK!.....rather....LAND BOAT!
LOL! Does anyone remember that from Saturday Night Live?
They'll have to clear out an entire shelf in the evidence room to store that.
In soviet russia nukes float you!
Remember this is not unique to Russia. All governments work this way. Yes, seize the barge to keep it out of the hands of those evil "creditors". You know. The ones who took all the risk and provided the money for the project. No, heaven help us if they find a way to get some of their investment back. Just take the asset, and fuck them. This is what governments do. To all you people out there screaming for more government and more laws - all you are doing is asking for a tighter noose around your own necks. When government smells trouble the first thing it does is confiscate, seize and expropriate - as the US is soon to find out.
To all you people out there holding "gold certificates" and laughing themselves to sleep, you will also find out how useful said piece of paper is when the shit hits the proverbial fan. Gold? What gold? Didn't you know? The government took all the gold... It has happened before.
where they could power deep-sea drilling for oil and gas... ...using a new exclusive Halliburton hydraulic fracturing technique utilizing a medium of whole baby seal and whale oils, Amazonian mahogany, ivory, Monsanto round-up ready soybeans, and plutonium.
In case of meltdown, just head it out to the middle of nowhere. Or am I missing something?
These are not the first nuclear power plant barges in existence. The US did this a long time ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH-1A
There's no money to decomission it, but the Army did just get funding to repaint it, so it looks all shiny and nice.
Building on a ship sounds like a much better idea than building on land near a densely populated area.
It's not a "middle of nowhere".
The barge was last seen out at sea, with sharks wearing some head ornaments being attached to the power cables.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
I'm surprised this wasn't about someone trying to create electrical infrastructure for one of those libertopia floating cities in the ocean
My version: "I before e, except after c, or when sounded like a, as in neighbor or weigh, ... with weird, scientific and foreign exceptions."
Note that weird, scientific and foreign all fall into the weird category. Caffeine is an example of scientific. A stein is an example of a beer-containing foreign exception, and therefore the quintessential German example. On the other hand, keiretsu is not an exception, despite how Sean Connery pronounced it in Rising Sun. (It's sounded like a, if you pronounce it in a less Scottish manner. I guess he thought it was German.)
before everyone gets all upset (ok, admittedly too late) we should all realize how important such a ship would be after a Zombie Apocalypse. If you were the captain of such a ship... filled with recently picked up goodies and food stuffs from China... upon coming to shore in California and realizing the demise of mankind you could sail from port to port picking up the few remaining, non-zombie, hot chicks that will be milling about (this is clear from every motion picture on the subject ever made) and go about remaking society in your own image.
...Barge seize you!
Just ride the wave... this solves the all tsunami problems...
Before everyone starts WTFing over a floating reactor, it's worth noting that the US Navy currently has just under 30 floating reactors in service, and another 70 in service that not only float, but are designed to sink and come back up.
You forgot the asbestos, pthalates, glycerol ester of wood rosin, and kitten paws.
Naw, you'd have to list the kitten paws on the label in California as a carcinogen.
Crap, that's how I got that malignant cuddlemuffinoma.
B.O.A.T.
Bring On Another Thousand
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Is this the first??? I think not - might want to check the US Army reactor on a barge during the 1960's and 70s off the coast of Panama.....
They saw this coming a mile away...ended up saving themselves by forcing the issue of seizing their own assets.....smart move, and avoids the russian mafia from moving in indirectly to aquire said items!