{"id":7651,"date":"2015-04-28T05:53:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T10:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2015-04-28T05:53:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T10:53:13","slug":"russia-to-power-arctic-drilling-with-floating-nuclear-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7651","title":{"rendered":"Russia To Power Arctic Drilling With Floating Nuclear Reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/oilprice.com\/Alternative-Energy\/Nuclear-Power\/Russia-To-Power-Arctic-Drilling-With-Floating-Nuclear-Reactors.html\" target=\"_blank\">Russia To Power Arctic Drilling With Floating Nuclear Reactors<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>It would sit in the icy waters of the Arctic, and provide a constant supply of electricity to a massive rig drilling for oil. They could be mass produced, potentially cutting the cost of drilling projects. The twist? The electricity on these floating power plants would come from a nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is looking to deploy a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/251709-russian-arctic-nuclear-powerplant\/\">floating nuclear reactor<\/a>\u00a0that could help power ports, industries, and also offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. In what sounds like a horrible nightmare for environmentalists, floating nuclear reactors could help produce more oil in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s reactor, called the Akademik Lomonosov, will be about the length of one and a half football fields, and will have the capacity to produce 70 megawatts of electricity. It is not self-propelled, but future mobile reactors will be. Russia plans on mass producing them once the Akademik Lomonosov proves itself. The small floating reactors will be on icebreakers, so they will be able to navigate icy Arctic waters.<\/p>\n<p>Construction began on the Akademik Lomonosov in 2007, but has suffered delays. But Russia\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said during a recent trip to the Arctic that Russia hopes to have a floating nuclear reactor running by October 2016. It will provide power to the Arctic town of Pevek in the East Siberian Sea. \u201cIt is basically an atomic reactor that can be docked to coastal infrastructure, and it will provide energy through a cable to any Arctic city,\u201d Rogozin\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/business\/article\/russia-to-build-worlds-first-floating-nuclear-power-plant-next-year\/519501.html\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Russia\u2019s state-owned nuclear firm Rosatom, at least 15 countries, including China, Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and Argentina, are interested in deploying floating nuclear reactors as well. In fact, last year, during Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s visit to Shanghai, Russia and China\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wantchinatimes.com\/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140529000110&amp;cid=1101\">signed an agreement<\/a>\u00a0to cooperate on building a floating nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia To Power Arctic Drilling With Floating Nuclear Reactors It would sit in the icy waters of the Arctic, and provide a constant supply of electricity to a massive rig drilling for oil. They could be mass produced, potentially cutting the cost of drilling projects. The twist? The electricity on these floating power plants would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1018,3121,5005,1419,5006,5004,694],"class_list":["post-7651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-arctic","tag-arctic-drilling","tag-dmitry-rogozin","tag-drilling","tag-east-siberian-sea","tag-nuclear-reactors","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7652,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions\/7652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}