Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
I don't know, this really sounds like a bad idea ...

Two Russian companies plan to build the world's first floating nuclear power plant to deliver cheap electricity to northern territories. The construction should start next year for a deployment in 2010. The huge barge will be home for two 60-megawatt nuclear reactors which will work until 2050 … if everything works fine.

Not exactly the smartest thing in the world, but far from some of the worst. This isnt a walking chernobyl becuase you have tons of ice cold refreshing arctic water around you. Also chernobyl was testing how much power they could get out of a power plant by barely having it turned on, requiring them to take out almost all of the safety mechanisms. IMO as far as nuclear disasters go, Three Mile Island was far worse, they were pretty close to having full blown china syndrom.

Quote Originally Posted by Mithrandir
How bout just shooting the radioactive waste into space ?
Then again, a rocket isn't really environmental friendly either..
No no and no. The failure rate of rockets is far to high to be shooting up radioactive waste. A rocket with a nose full of uranium blowing up over miami is bad. Heck this past year the solar sail satelite that was going to orbit the earth and moon blew up in the sky.

I'm not against nuclear power, infact its far more safe then coal. The waste is easily dealt with, lock it up in a mountain until we can figure out how to deal with it.
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