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kristopher

(29,798 posts)
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 03:02 PM Apr 2015

Floating nuclear power plants promise major savings for Arctic mines

Floating nuclear power plants promise major savings for Arctic mines
Diesel-fuelled power “not sustainable for the scale of development we want to see"


PETER VARGA



Mining projects in Nunavut are saddled with high expenses that could discourage development.

With that in mind, why not go for a tried and proven cheaper source of energy that can come and go on the high seas, and reach the territory’s coastal communities?

That’s just what Dunedin Energy Systems Ltd., an Ontario-based energy consulting firm, suggested when it pointed to “floating nuclear power plants” as an alternative energy source, April 16 at the Nunavut Mining Symposium in Iqaluit.

Nuclear power generators have been cruising the high seas in the ships of the world’s biggest navies since the 1950s, Peter Lang, president of Dunedin, told an audience at the symposium.

“Since then, civilian applications have come along,” Lang said ...
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674floating_nuclear_power_plants_promise_major_savings_for_arctic_mines/
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Floating nuclear power plants promise major savings for Arctic mines (Original Post) kristopher Apr 2015 OP
Blink. Blink blink. NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #1
I was once on a tramp freighter in the Atlantic Ichingcarpenter Apr 2015 #2
This is the onion, right? Warren Stupidity Apr 2015 #3
Put a desalinization plant on board and make it a two-for-one boondoggle. hunter Apr 2015 #4
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. Blink. Blink blink.
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 03:16 PM
Apr 2015

We just can't fuck up this planet fast enough, can we?

What is it that we must have so desperately?

Gold, Lead, Zinc?

And nuclear energy?

Why not just use Hydrogen fuel?

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
2. I was once on a tramp freighter in the Atlantic
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 03:38 PM
Apr 2015

and we hit 60 foot waves ........ boy was that fun, we had a caterpillar bull dozier that almost broke free in the hold. I didn't know about that until the storm was over.

Now imagine it was nuclear
riding out a storm.......................LOL



hunter

(38,264 posts)
4. Put a desalinization plant on board and make it a two-for-one boondoggle.
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 04:22 PM
Apr 2015

California might even welcome a few if they get thirsty enough...




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