Comments on: Russia to build floating Arctic nuclear stations https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/ Tue, 05 May 2009 13:11:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Bobby Dee https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535388 Tue, 05 May 2009 13:11:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535388 Hey Dunc #13 – it was not cut and paste. I brought up Chernobyl and TMI as whenever anyone tries to discredit Nuclear Power, they always bring these two into the conversation.

A self fulfilling prophesy then after all.

]]> By: DaveH https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535387 Tue, 05 May 2009 13:08:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535387 Hey Dunc #13 – it was not cut and paste. I brought up Chernobyl and TMI as whenever anyone tries to discredit Nuclear Power, they always bring these two into the conversation.

There have been a lot of advances in Nuclear Power. We have an incredible safety record for our submarine fleet as do other navies.

Also, when the original plants were built, each and every one of them was unique. Now, they are modularized and when one cooling pump has a bad bearing, all of the sibling reactors get that bearing replaced as well.

Stop wringing your hands and bloviating and start learning some basic science and engineering. It ain’t that hard to understand…

]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535386 Tue, 05 May 2009 09:27:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535386 Sigh. I meant “greatest of your failings”… it sounded like such an awesome backhand in my mind, until I parsed it out.

]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535385 Tue, 05 May 2009 09:24:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535385

The whole global climate chnage thing s another ponzy scheme

I suspect you don’t know what a Ponzi scheme is.

Not that that’s the least of your failings.

]]> By: Alexey 'Free Researcher' Timoshenko https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535384 Tue, 05 May 2009 08:14:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535384 I live in Russia (so sorry for bad English – its not my native language). This project of floating nuclear power plants looks like “Clipper” spaceship – inadequate funding and (possibly) poor organisation make it a kind of never-will-be-built vessel.

With proper funding and organisation it may be a cool idea – distant areas in Siberia (all north-east coast, for example) and Kamchatka (yes, they are using oil for power plants and boilers) has no other power sources. If we have to choose between nuclear power and oil – nuclear power is best solution, IMHO.

]]> By: Dunc https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535383 Tue, 05 May 2009 05:25:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535383

It is very odd that you are mapping current nuclear technology onto the past failures of Chernobyl and even bringing in Three Mile Island

Nobody even mentioned Three Mile Island… Is this, by any chance, a blind cut’n’paste?

]]> By: DaveH https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535382 Tue, 05 May 2009 04:03:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535382 I must apologize for the comment from Right Wing Extremist.

He may certainly speak for himself but he does not speak for a lot of conservatives out there.

The story about the ship is true — it is a floating Nuke Plant and anyone who reads the word “Nuke” and starts hyperventilating needs to get an update on current technology. It is very odd that you are mapping current nuclear technology onto the past failures of Chernobyl and even bringing in Three Mile Island (whose reactor failed but whose safety systems performed as engineered)

Considering that it takes about fifteen years to get a plant from design to power, these two examples were designed in the 1940’s and 1950’s

QUESTION: How many of you are reading this on a laptop?

I am.

How many of you are listening to music?

I have Hamza El Din playing through my iPod.

Was this technology available fifteen years ago?

Yeah, but not as a laptop or as an iPod.

Nukes have made the same journey. France gets 70% of their power from nukes. Japan the same. The USA gets 20%

Patrick Moore (the co-founder of Greenpeace) says that Nuclear Power is our best option.

Do your fscking homework…

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535381 Mon, 04 May 2009 23:45:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535381 Between DDT and Nugent, I’m voting Poe.

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535380 Mon, 04 May 2009 23:43:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535380 …the scary thing is, I have no idea whether the previous comment is facetious.

Sad, but true. I would actually guess yeah on that, but it is rather iffy. Considering one of my best friends actually believes there is a UN/E.T. base on the dark side of the moon (not believes there might or probably is) I don’t tend to assume…

]]> By: Azkyroth https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535379 Mon, 04 May 2009 23:31:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/04/russia-to-build-floating-arcti/#comment-535379 …the scary thing is, I have no idea whether the previous comment is facetious. (I’m guessing not, sadly; a Poe presumably would have “Ponzi” spelled right).

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