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Date: November 04, 2015 at 09:23:21
From: Nasirah, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Russian military plans mobile nuclear energy plants in Arctic |
URL: https://www.rt.com/news/320732-arctic-mobile-nuclear-powerplants/ |
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A disaster wating to happen...
Russia’s Defense Ministry has contracted research work to develop mobile nuclear power plants designated for military installations in the Arctic. With the Soviet experience in mind, introduction of the
first mobile NPP is likely to take place by 2020.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has ordered a pilot project of a mobile low-power nuclear station to be mounted on a tracked vehicle or a sledged platform to be delivered where needed in the
Arctic region.
“The project has already begun and is going through a research stage now,” TASS cited Yury Konyushko, CEO of Innovation Projects Engineering Company (IPEC), which has been chosen to work on
the project.
Preliminary data is to be presented to the military by the end of this year, Konyushko said.
Once the ministry checks out the project and gives it the green light, full-scale development, estimated to take up to two years, will begin. After that engineering and construction of an operable
prototype will be launched.
“We are to present the pilot unit within four to five years, which is by 2020,” Konyushko said, specifically saying that an assembly line for serial production of such units is going to be readied
simultaneously from scratch.
The technical characteristics of the mobile NPPs demanded by the Defense Ministry have not been disclosed. The units are expected to be produced on a modular principle and mounted on KAMAZ
and MAZ trucks, as well as sledge-mounted for harsh Arctic conditions.
A principal condition for the future mobile nuclear power stations is that they could be transported by military cargo jets and heavy cargo helicopters, such as the Mil Mi-26.
“There is a demand for no less than 30 such [nuclear power plant] units for Extreme North and reclaiming Arctic archipelagos,” Konyushko said.
The future mobile NPPs are going to be fully autonomous and designed for years-long operation with a small number of personnel. At the same time, all data from the unit’s controls and sensors will be
constantly sent to control rooms on the mainland using satellite connections for constant monitoring.
The first tracked mobile nuclear power plant was designed in the USSR in 1961. It was followed by a number of projects, all of which were discontinued following the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in
1986.
Today, Russia is finalizing another transportable nuclear power project, the first floating nuclear power plant built for use in the Arctic, which will be ready by October 2016.
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Date: November 04, 2015 at 10:24:12
From: mr bopp, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Russian military plans mobile nuclear energy plants in Arctic |
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wackly....like the US sending them through the atmosphere out into the galaxy...
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Date: November 05, 2015 at 13:19:11
From: Candace/Denver, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Russian military plans mobile nuclear energy plants in Arctic |
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Nope.. Russia has been given special technology and it
will further seeded... their new stuff can for almost
generations to come consume all our waste hanging around.
Many craft are nuclear powered under quite safe ways.
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Date: November 04, 2015 at 11:16:13
From: Nasirah, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Russian military plans mobile nuclear energy plants in Arctic |
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Well its either launch it into space and learn something useful or turn Tehran
into a sheet of glass ;-)
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