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China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Algeria are interested in floating nuclear power plant

Russia Just Sent a Floating Nuclear Power Plant Out to Sea
The ship is being called a “floating Chernobyl” by environmental activists.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...russia-siberia

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The vessel’s actual name is the Akademik Lomonosov (after the Russian polymath who discovered the atmosphere of Venus) and it doesn’t contain its own propulsion system, so the nuclear barge must be towed by smaller boats. The power plant on board consists of two-nuclear reactors capable of delivering a combined 70 MW of power, approximately enough for a city of 200,000 people.

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Originally, the Akademik Lomonosov was meant to be loaded with nuclear fuel and tested in St. Petersburg, but these plans were abandoned after Norway and Finland put pressure on Russia to load the uranium fuel elsewhere. Greenpeace has expressed concerns with putting a nuclear power plant to sea. Rosatom is planning a production line to mass produce these floating reactors for sale to other countries.

Are you sure about Indonesia in that list, cause I live in Indonesia and never heard anything about it ???

A FLOATING REACTOR IN 'THE RING OF FIRE??!!

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Originally Posted by ChrisTayeb (Post 2553347)

Are you sure about Indonesia in that list, cause I live in Indonesia and never hears anything about it ???

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The 1958-established National Atomic Energy Agency (Badan Tenaga Nuklir Nasional, BATAN) wants to build an experimental nuclear power reactor at Serpong, the site of its largest multipurpose research reactor, and it continues to assess its options. In early 2015, BATAN signed a contract to build and test a pebble-bed HTGR at Serpong with a consortium of Russian and Indonesian companies led by NUKEM Technologies. And, in August 2016, BATAN pushed on with its nuclear ambitions, signing a cooperation agreement with China Nuclear Engineering Corp., looking to develop small HTGRs in Kalimantan and Sulawesi by 2027. BATAN also has agreements with Russia’s Rosatom to develop a floating nuclear power plant that could electrify its smaller inhabited islands.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-g-n/indonesia.aspx THIS COULD GET INTERESTING WHEN A VOLCANO SUCH AS SON-OF-KRAKATOA CURRENTLY WARMING UP, GOES UP AGAIN; SAY A LEVEL 6+ ON THE VULCANOLOGY SCALE INDEX AND GENERATES A SUNAMI... https://www.indonesia-investments.com/business/risks/natural-disasters/item243? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...on_map.svg.png< I AM IN THE IMAGE OF GOD....AND GOD IS A PESSIMIST!:oops: :/\\!! :damn: :dead:

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2553350)

I was aware of the Badan Pengawas Tenaga Nuklir (BAPETEN) and BATAN being involved in nuclear power plant research but in relation to those floating "chernobyl" HTGR I had no idea about it.
It's a bit scary cause for what I know the local PLN (State owned Electrical Power Company) have difficulty in providing efficient service with coal and diesel centrals, just have to see how many times a month we get power outages, so for them to go on and manage nuclear stuff, damn!!!
And to top this onerous stupidity seriously financially they are plenty of more important issues to solve here, save dealing with nuclear powered plants, and the eventual volcanic activity in some regions...
I hardly believe this would ever happen anyway, cause to know well about the economic situation here I doubt the government to ever have the ressources for these energy agencies to produce significant results and sustain a continuous development for a nuclear program.