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Controversial Russian floating nuclear power plant heads out to Baltic Sea
Russia’s controversial floating nuclear power plant has headed out for its first sea voyage.
The floating plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, was towed Saturday out of the St. Petersburg shipyard where it was constructed. It is to be towed through the Baltic Sea and around the northern tip of Norway to Murmansk, where its reactors are to be loaded with nuclear fuel.
READ MORE: Nuclear accident in Russia or Kazakhstan left radioactive pollution over Europe, no health impacts expected
The Lomonosov is to be put into service in 2019 in the Arctic off the coast of Chukotka in the far east, providing power for a port town and for oil rigs.
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The project has been widely criticized by environmentalists. Greenpeace has dubbed it a “floating Chernobyl.”
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I'm for more nuclear, wind and solar power plants.
Coal needs to DIE as providing electric power!
I'm not cool with this floating around in the sea of Chukotka in the far east!
If they want to float it in the Black Sea or the Caspian Sea, sure.
The Bering Sea is rough if you watch say 'Deadliest Catch'..
Up in Chukotka the sea storms are even bigger.
The thang will be electrically powered. So I think when the yuge storms are coming they can move.
the thang. FFS! You want this moving around? I hope the thang is built to sink without cracking open.
I rather see plants like this/these built inland
Russia’s controversial floating nuclear power plant has headed out for its first sea voyage.
The floating plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, was towed Saturday out of the St. Petersburg shipyard where it was constructed. It is to be towed through the Baltic Sea and around the northern tip of Norway to Murmansk, where its reactors are to be loaded with nuclear fuel.
READ MORE: Nuclear accident in Russia or Kazakhstan left radioactive pollution over Europe, no health impacts expected
The Lomonosov is to be put into service in 2019 in the Arctic off the coast of Chukotka in the far east, providing power for a port town and for oil rigs.
READ MORE: Russians arrested for crypto-mining at nuclear facility
The project has been widely criticized by environmentalists. Greenpeace has dubbed it a “floating Chernobyl.”
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I'm for more nuclear, wind and solar power plants.
Coal needs to DIE as providing electric power!
I'm not cool with this floating around in the sea of Chukotka in the far east!
If they want to float it in the Black Sea or the Caspian Sea, sure.
The Bering Sea is rough if you watch say 'Deadliest Catch'..
Up in Chukotka the sea storms are even bigger.
The thang will be electrically powered. So I think when the yuge storms are coming they can move.
the thang. FFS! You want this moving around? I hope the thang is built to sink without cracking open.
I rather see plants like this/these built inland
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