[DUMBGRUNT]

NAME SOMETHING USEFUL THAT ENVIRONMENTALIST APPROVE?

My only question, work hardening of the shore power cables?

Willing to believe the Ruskies have worked out.

[camle]

power for their secret military base

[BenLurkin]

Mikhail Lomonosov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov

[DUMBGRUNT]

My career Navy father used to tell of his ship providing temporary power for part of the city of Seattle(?)

He retired from the Navy in 1954.

[Pollard]

Floating Chernobyl

a mixed drink coming soon to your local watering hole

[dowcaet]

Another anti-Russia and anti-nuclear whine from the usual suspects!

[dfwgator]

Ice Station Zebra?

[DanielRedfoot]

Sounds like a James Bond plot

[yldstrk]

This is a really bad idea

[Larry Lucido]

A rubber liner might protect it.

[moovova]

"Darn! Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse..."

[rrrod]

Russia should be confined to windmills...

[Sequoyah101]

In 1960 Camp Century was built East of Thule. It included a nuclear reactor for power.

[blueunicorn6]

By golly, an electric car with unlimited mileage.

Finally.

[McGruff]

What about those poor polar bears?

[Aqua225]

This is not the RMBK design of Chernobyl. Probably more along the lines of submarine and ship power designs, but the article is more about fear mongering than tech.

If America doesn’t stomp on the thorium gas pedal, we will overnight be out of the energy business when these start coming online. It would be better if we owned the tech and licensing business, both at the private and public enterprise levels.

There is also the CANDU dirt burner reactor tech of North America. NCSU has a very small version of it on campus here in Raleigh!

[RinaseaofDs]

Maybe. Took us less than 20 years to forget 911. Chernobyl happened in 1986.

I’ll tell you, the series did highlight how bad it actually was, and how bad it could have been.

So, Fukashima. They had at least two reactors explode from steam pressure - the roof blowing right off.

How bad is all of that.

And why oh why haven’t we completely gone to LFTR technology? All of the downsides of Thorium are so, so much easier to deal with than with Uranium.

[hinckley buzzard]

Brilliant idea. Due to opposition from anti-American lobbyists, it could never be done here, say in the arctic sea off the north coast of Alaska. But the Russians do not have to pander to the green weenies. No doubt they have learned their lessons from Chernobyl, so this project would be no more dangerous than a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier anchored off shore.

Good for the Russkies. Too bad we can’t do the same for political reasons..

[Paal Gulli]

The Chernobyl connection is pure hyperbole. Chernobyl was an inherently flawed (RBMK) design but these are pressurized water reactors, same as the ones the US pioneered the use of in the 1950s.

But it does seem odd they’re parking reactors capable of powering a city of 100,000 when the nearest city is only 4000.