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I'm flabergasted by that "don't worry attitude everything is safe" ... till it goes wrong .

Now i know i insist but in my mind nuclear energy is a worst case scenario in terms of producing energy it should be used by countries having no other means of producing energy and even so it should be done under extraordinary circumstances , but when u tell me you will build floating nuclear power plant i am aghast , blown away , atomised by such a careless attitude.

Of course everything will seem safer and people won't mind ... Untill some dumb accident or freak event happens , then what ? As if lakes and oceans were not part of our world and soon the artic will probably see some of those stupid ideas mushroom in one of the most critical place for life on this earth . It's a most scary world we will leave to future generations already greatly affected by the last century's alienating activities.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contain in vain ! and if they do so it's surely because they don't give a damn about stupid beings .

Tectol

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Updated at 19 May 2009 1:25 Moscow Time.

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The Moscow Times » Issue 4148 » Business

Dmitry Astakhov / ria-novostiPresident Dmitry Medvedev meeting with Sergei Kiriyenko at his Gorki residence outside Moscow on Monday.

Work Starts on Floating Nuclear Station

19 May 2009The Moscow TimesRussia began building its first floating nuclear power plant on Monday as Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko laid out ambitious plans for the sector in a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.

The power plant, which is being assembled at the St. Petersburg-based Baltic Shipyard by Energoatom, a subsidiary of Rosatom, is the first of seven floating nuclear power plants that the company plans to build, Energoatom head Sergei Obozov told reporters on Monday.

Obozov said the first two power plants are to service the towns of Vilyuchinsk, in the Kamchatka region, and Pevek, which is located in the Chukotka autonomous district. Future power plants could be built for and sold to foreign buyers, he said.

The contract for building the first of the floating nuclear power plants is worth 983 billion rubles ($30.6 billion), Interfax reported.

Building new atomic energy facilities is a key priority for the industry, Kiriyenko told Medvedev on Monday.

He said Russia's atomic energy industry compared unfavorably with Western firms in terms of efficiency and promised that he would increase labor productivity by a factor of 4.5.

"When it comes to modernization, the key thing is labor productivity," Kiriyenko told Medvedev. "We've set before ourselves parameters that were even tougher than the ones you set for the economy in general. We have made it our goal to increase productivity 4.5 times."

Kiriyenko said the company was able to win back several key markets in 2008.

"We are back in the Czech Republic, in Hungary, in Slovakia and Finland," he said.

Kiriyenko described an incident that occurred in the Czech Republic, where authorities were in such a hurry to use Russian nuclear fuel that they ordered U.S. fuel to be unloaded from their reactors ahead of schedule.
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