floating nuclear power plant Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:30:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 MIT Engineers Propose Tsunami-Resistant Floating Nuclear Power Plants https://www.greenoptimistic.com/engineers-mit-propose-tsunami-resistant-floating-nuclear-power-plants-20140417/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/engineers-mit-propose-tsunami-resistant-floating-nuclear-power-plants-20140417/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:30:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47050 The reason why people are always reluctant when it comes to nuclear power is the fear of explosion. Although it is a source of large amounts of clean energy, a lot of resources go into maintaining and protecting the facilities from accidents. Many still remember the incident in Chernobyl, or for sure have heard about […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/engineers-mit-propose-tsunami-resistant-floating-nuclear-power-plants-20140417/feed/ 3 47050 Akademik Lomonosov, (Russia’s) First Ever Floating Nuclear Power Plant https://www.greenoptimistic.com/akademik-lomonosov-floating-nuclear-power-plant-20131105/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/akademik-lomonosov-floating-nuclear-power-plant-20131105/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:12:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=43192 The world is about to witness something that no one has expected. A large scale portable energy generating facilities, and this time it has nothing to do with solar, it is nuclear. Yes, you read correctly. The Russians announced the grand opening of the first ever floating nuclear power plant to be held in 2019. […]

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