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Related: About this forumFloating nuclear power plants promise major savings for Arctic mines
Floating nuclear power plants promise major savings for Arctic minesDiesel-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 territorys coastal communities?
Thats 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 worlds 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
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)1. Blink. Blink blink.
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
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
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)3. This is the onion, right?
hunter
(38,264 posts)4. Put a desalinization plant on board and make it a two-for-one boondoggle.
California might even welcome a few if they get thirsty enough...