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."

Comments

Siezed?

[cepler]

Siezed? O RLY? Maybe Seazed! Or...maybe.... Seized!

Re:Siezed?

[jdpars]

I before E except after C... except in words derived from the Latin word "capio." It's complicated.

Time for your head to explode.

[blair1q]

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.

Re:Time for your head to explode.

[Arancaytar]

What's wrong with that? It combines the impressive safety of nuclear fission with the emission-free awesomeness of fossil fuels AND the completely non-existent risk of an oil spill polluting an entire ocean. Best of three worlds!

Re:Time for your head to explode.

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

I got cancer just reading that.

Re:Time for your head to explode.

[ColdWetDog]

Just think of the possibilities of a major radioactive oil leak happening in the Arctic Ocean in the midst of Polar Bears, Whales and Walruses. Should be good for one or two mutant monsters, a superhero and a whole generation of Micheal Bay movies.

Re:Pretty crazy idea anyway

[neokushan]

As opposed to a submarine?

Re:Not nuclear, just a barge

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

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.

Re:Pretty crazy idea anyway

[avandesande]

The ironic thing is that they could have possibly anchored this off the coast of Japan and prevented the meltdown.

Re:Not nuclear, just a barge

[rubycodez]

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.

Isn't nuclear safer at sea anyway?

[mj1856]

In case of meltdown, just head it out to the middle of nowhere. Or am I missing something?

Re:Not nuclear, just a barge

[SomePgmr]

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.

Re:Not nuclear, just a barge

[Chris Burke]

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.