Floating nuclear plants‏

There is no limit to human imagination: Russia is now building its first floating nuclear power plant. The Russian government has decided to build a new type of nuclear plants: They are floating ! The first prototype should be ready in 2011. It will have the capacity to produce enough electricity for a small town of 200 000 habitants and will cost approximately 300 millions Euros. It will measure 140 meters of length for 30 meters width. There will be 140 persons working on the plant. The floating plant will be brought in a secure and quiet port in the baltic sea. The russian engineers believe that this type of nuclear plants could also be useful in the future for the desalinization of water. What about vulnerability to terrorism ? According to Russian authorities, everything has been forseen and the plant security will be taken care of by sophisticated electronic access control equipments ( eyes and finger print laser recognition and other things), and anti submarine attacks control systems. The plant is also expected to resist to the crash of a kamikaze plane. Apparently there is already a number of countries which expressed their interest of buying floating plants in the future. The list includes Canada, Malaysia, China, Indonesia and the Republic of Korea.

Let us wish us all good luck for the future...