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Comment by ams6110 | Hacker News Reader

Russia is conducting an experiment with nuclear power, one that backers say is a leading-edge feat of engineering but that critics call reckless.

The country is unveiling a floating nuclear power plant.

Um, "unveiling" ??

We've have floating nuclear power in submarines, aircraft carriers, maybe other vessels for half a century.

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Yes, the article notes that, "The United States used a barge-based reactor to generate electricity for the Panama Canal Zone from 1968 until 1976, and Westinghouse, the American reactor builder, planned — but never built — two floating plants off the New Jersey coast at around that time"

1968! The interesting story is why the NYT's is running this and running with it now [not trying to be tin-hat, maybe it was just a slow news day, but you can find links posted on HN going back almost 5 years about this project]

I dream of a time when there is a slow news day so they publish less content. Also dream of a day when you turn on a new station and breaking news is in fact breaking news.

When I lived in Norway, this was pretty much the norm. They would publish gossip about celebrities and politicians all day instead.

This is designed to just generate power rather than to use it to power itself.

Companies 'unveil' new cars every year, just because the basis has been done before does mean that you can't unveil it in a different format.

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