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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."
Ship: Noun. "A hole in the water into which one pours money."
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.
As opposed to a submarine?
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
It's not even NewsFor Nerds, it's just a "Insert 'Oh noes! The radiations!' flamewar here" story. Must be a really really slow news day.
Or an aircraft carrier.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
There are a few aircraft carrier crews that don't think it's too crazy.
The ironic thing is that they could have possibly anchored this off the coast of Japan and prevented the meltdown.
love is just extroverted narcissism
Please take me to your nuclear wessels!
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In soviet russia nukes float you!
no, the steam systems and turbines are installed, power cabling in progress, only the two reactors are on site and not installed yet. more than normal barge.
Or the Savannah.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
yeah, that's almost as crazy as a nuclear reactor on a B-36, who'd be insane enough to put any money into a concept like that, or build a couple reactors for that? hahaha
In post-soviet russia, barge provides power to *you*
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.
Russia has been building nuclear-powered ships for decades.
Reading problems? The creditors did not invest in the barge, the government did. The shipyard is the one with financial problems, and the government wants to protect it's investment in the barge before the barge gets declared as an asset of the shipyard.
The ironic thing is that they could have possibly anchored this off the coast of Japan and prevented the meltdown.
Naah the real irony was the general business model for floating plants was, we'll build a 3rd world country a plant and let them have the electricity... until they stop paying... at which point it gets towed away. This time its the builders who got towed not the 3rd world country.
The other funny part is creditors are known for doing stupid things when they seize "their" property. Imagine a repo guy hauling core assemblies thru town on the back of a stereotypical repo lift truck. I'm glad the courts seized it instead of the repo clowns.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
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.
Obama? As long as he could filter the money through some Union and into his campaign funds. He could create several more temporary minimum wage jobs at a mere $280,000/job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_airplane
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Somebody ran a fiber line out to Galt's Gulch again. A backhoe should be around to correct the problem in the near future; but best to ignore it until then...
Thank you for that. I was thinking of that myself.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
To be fair, if they stayed away from any topic that degrades into everyone screaming bloody murder at each other, we wouldn't have a /. at all.
People will argue about nearly anything, or brutally shoehorn [politically-charged-topic] into any discussion.
Just ride the wave... this solves the all tsunami problems...
What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense. -Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton’s steamboat.
You must be American
NS Savannah
This is blinging
Russia doesn't exactly have a good safety record regarding sea-going nuclear reactors. 3 of their nuclear subs are currently lying on the bottom of the artic sea.
I think it'd be more popular (and profitable) to rent these out to water-starved but well-off countries, to power desalination plants. A float it in, as a turnkey system, complete with technicians and all; that would be pretty nifty.
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
People will argue about nearly anything, or brutally shoehorn [politically-charged-topic] into any discussion.
No, we won't! That's exactly the kind of stupidity I'd expect from the pro-offshore-drilling astroturfers, though.
The enemies of Democracy are
Yeah, and the government still owes my family $400,000 plus interest from 1955 or thereabouts, for unpaid bills on that scrapped project. B*()^(&^(&#(*&%!!!!
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Not only that, but the excess heat (efficiency of a nuclear power plant is only about 33%) could also be used to distill more water, improving the total efficiency somewhat. Then all we have to worry about is the localized salt pollution.
Maybe they can also use the salt somehow, with some of the excess heat and some of the energy, to absorb CO2 from the air??? taking clues from the Solvay process, maybe make sodium carbonate and ammonium chloride, both useful products.
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I hereby award you one gold star.
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Lol. As I write this, further down, we have people flipping their shit over spelling and grammar, how stupid all Americans are, Halliburton, the tyranny of Obama/unions/campaign financing, military spending, and of course the evils of nuclear power generation.
Le sigh.
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.
lol, you'll have the moderators wondering. Is this +1 funny, or +1 troll for funny ;)
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.
"Or the Savannah"
Naw, they were going to build one on the savannah, but the cheetahs were all radical enviros. They protested and tied it up in court forever.
"This time its the builders who got towed not the 3rd world country."
In Soviet shipbuilding, barge tows you!
B.O.A.T.
Bring On Another Thousand
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
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!
I'm not a shark, I'm a dolphin.
It counts for the purposes of my post, for the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program huge amount of money spent on design for conversion of two B-36, and a couple of reactors were built