Russia to build floating Arctic nuclear stations

Environmental | 206943 hits | May 03 9:05 am | Posted by: Hyack

Russia is planning a fleet of floating and submersible nuclear power stations to exploit Arctic oil and gas reserves, causing widespread alarm among environmentalists.

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by maldonsfecht
Sun May 03, 2009 4:27 pm
uh-oh... this could get interesting real fast
by ridenrain
Sun May 03, 2009 4:38 pm
Wow... with the safety record of the soviet nuclear submarine fleet, I can see nothing bad with this plan..
by Wada
Sun May 03, 2009 5:57 pm
They have sure outpaced Canada when it come to developing their arctic resources. Makes one wonder where our leadership is. I've heard a lot of talk over the last few years and seen little in the way of results up to now.
by ridenrain
Sun May 03, 2009 6:12 pm
Good spin...
They don't have a great deal of other year round ports and their arctic fleet was all an offshoot from their military forces. They also pioneered the arctic through their gulags, military cities and less than ecological resource exploration.

We Canadians have a phobia about exploiting our north and just because we'd prefer to make the whole thing one big park, the world obviously has other ideas. I'd prefer we were more like Alaska and then we'd have the population and activities that would establish our ownership.
by CommanderSock
Sun May 03, 2009 6:51 pm

We Canadians have a phobia about exploiting our north and just because we'd prefer to make the whole thing one big park, the world obviously has other ideas. I'd prefer we were more like Alaska and then we'd have the population and activities that would establish our ownership.

The Russians are notorious for forced labour policies.

We're better than that. The demand for northern exploration is also stifled by activists and pressure from international preservation NGOs.

Russia will be russia, where opinions stay just that.
by RUEZ
Sun May 03, 2009 6:55 pm
"Wada" said
They have sure outpaced Canada when it come to developing their arctic resources. Makes one wonder where our leadership is. I've heard a lot of talk over the last few years and seen little in the way of results up to now.

They also have 140 million people and a head start on building communities in the Arctic.
by ridenrain
Sun May 03, 2009 7:00 pm
I quite agree. The best we can get under our system is to follow Alaska.
We simply can't compete with the Russians, nor would we ever want to.
by Wada
Sun May 03, 2009 10:32 pm
So we've gone from a Can Do attitude to a Can Did or Can nor would we want to attitude.
If what you say is true then why all the Jive Talk from Harper. Is he scared to tell us it just isn't worth the trouble. Don be askin' me to help beat back the US, Russia, Britian or whoever. Lordy thunderin boys, consider yourselves all #1 in my book, eh!
by GreenTiger
Sun May 03, 2009 10:33 pm
This is part of the Russian effort to "encorrage" Canada to accept the Russia's claim to the artic.

Given their record on safety this might be quite dangerous.
by Arctic_Menace
Mon May 04, 2009 2:32 am
As if Russia cares about what environmentalists say.
by dino_bobba_renno
Mon May 04, 2009 2:39 am
Russia has a long record of polluting the Arctic with radioactive waste. Countries including Britain have had to offer Russia billions of dollars to decommission more than 160 nuclear submarines, but at least 12 nuclear reactors are known to have been dumped, along with more than 5,000 containers of solid and liquid nuclear waste, on the northern coast and on the island of Novaya Zemlya.

I think that pretty much sums up AM's post

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