February 18, 2006
Floating Nuclear Power Plants
The Russian State Company on electricity and heat energy production
established the department on floating nuclear plants construction...
item (1/16/06)
...the plant will be able to provide a town of 50,000 people with heating and electrical energy or be used to desalinate sea-water.
also from 2002 http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/020624.htm
Proliferation Risks & est. costs.
~Check out the estimated construction costs.
Reversing global warming promises to be radioactive and...even with science engineering fiction...expensive.
According to Google News Search there are no news stories with the exact phrase: "floating nuclear power plant". I thought "floating nuclear power plant" sounded funny. It's Russian science fiction, agitprop? There's one story, besides the above, dated Jan. 17 with the exact phrase: "floating nuclear power plants". I apologize.
Posted by Cieciel at February 18, 2006 08:51 PM