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The Akademik Lomonosov, under construction since 2007, has been launched. The barge,
has a length of 144 metres (472 ft) and width of 30 metres (98 ft). It has a displacement of 21,500 tonnes and a crew of 69 people. For the power generation, it has two modified KLT-40 naval propulsion reactors together providing up to 70 MW of electricity or 300 MW of heat.
According to Engadget:
Starting from St Petersburg, it will be towed around Norway to a Russian town called Murmansk to take on nuclear fuel. From there, it will head to the Arctic to power the oil-industry town of Pevek, along with a desalination plant and drilling rigs. While it's not the first floating nuclear plant -- the US used one from 1968 to 1975 -- it will be the first one in almost 40 years.
Futurism reports that:
Rosatom, the government-owned Russian energy company that developed the Lomonosov, released a statement saying that the floating reactor will be "invincible" to tsunamis and other natural disasters, and that it has met all the requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The company argues that they have rendered Lomonosov harmless to the environment.
A press release from Greenpeace says:
The floating nuclear power plant was initially supposed to be loaded with nuclear fuel and tested on site in the centre of St. Petersburg. However, due to pressure from the Baltic states and a successful petition organised by Greenpeace Russia, Rosatom, the state-controlled nuclear giant that owns and operates the floating nuclear power plant, decided on 21 July 2017 to move loading and testing to Murmansk.
A 2013 RT article said:
The Akademik Lomonosov is to become the spearhead of a series of floating nuclear power plants, which Russia plans to put into mass-production.
[...]15 countries, including China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Algeria, Namibia, Cape Verde and Argentina, have previously expressed interest in acquiring such power stations.
The Times of London has an infographic that can be viewed by non-subscribers.
Science Magazine has a loosely related article, Floating Nuclear Plants: Power from the Assembly Line; the first page can be viewed by non-subscribers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:58PM (10 children)
What happens if it sinks? There are plenty of terrorist organizations (let alone military organizations) that would love to see how fast that ship takes on water.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @11:10PM (2 children)
OTOH, I'm not aware of any terrorist organizations that are active in the Arctic.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @12:52AM
U.S. Navy?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:32AM
The Russian government accused [site.uit.no] Greenpeace of terrorism in 2013.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday May 01 2018, @11:10PM (6 children)
Let's go over this again: remote Russian arctic mining town.
Even if the terrorist leader had enough charisma to convince his followers to take on such a stupid mission, the sheer logistics, the lack of escape, and the likely blackout of the news makes it worse than a bad Hollywood plot.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 02 2018, @03:22AM (5 children)
Terrorists with control of commercial airliners on suicide missions? Yeah, sure, that could never happen again.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:40AM (3 children)
(Score: 2, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:20PM (2 children)
Greentard anti-Russians. Funny old world that terrorists target Wall Street and the Pentagon but don't bother with the evil empire.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:44PM (1 child)
> Funny old world that terrorists target Wall Street and the Pentagon but don't bother with the evil empire.
You must be American.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 03 2018, @12:44AM
Absolutely, I had the mandatory 6 months of "Americanism vs Communism" indoctrination in high school and everything. I pledged allegiance to the flag about 2300 times during my impressionable youth, but I did opt out of the nuclear submarine corps in exchange for free University deal.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @05:14AM
Heh. Yeah.
While Condi Rice and that crowd saying "Who could have imagined?", Hollywood had already done that several times. [google.com]
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