{"id":288647,"date":"2019-08-26T05:42:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T05:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=288647"},"modified":"2019-08-26T05:42:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T05:42:51","slug":"opinion-russias-floating-nuclear-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opinion-russias-floating-nuclear-reactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Russia\u2019s floating nuclear reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the recent explosion at a military testing site, Russia seems keen to tempt fate again. Today, it is set to launch the world\u2019s first floating nuclear reactor on a journey across the Arctic to north-eastern Siberia. It is being portrayed as a simpler alternative to building a conventional plant on firm ground. Russia\u2019s nuclear agency Rosatom wants to sell such reactors abroad, says a report. Needless to say, the very concept has a dangerous ring to it. Is it a floating nuclear disaster waiting to happen?<\/p>\n<p>The project has been dubbed \u201cChernobyl on ice&#8221; or \u201cnuclear Titanic&#8221; by environmentalists, and quite rightly so. Nuclear reactors, as they stand, produce nuclear waste and there is always a likelihood of accidents. The fact that this one will be floating on water makes it susceptible to sea storms too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the recent explosion at a military testing site, Russia seems keen to tempt fate again. Today, it is set to launch the world\u2019s first floating nuclear reactor on a journey across the Arctic to north-eastern Siberia. It is being portrayed as a simpler alternative to building a conventional plant on firm ground. Russia\u2019s nuclear agency Rosatom wants to sell such reactors abroad, says a report. Needless to say, the very concept has a dangerous ring to it. Is it a floating nuclear disaster waiting to happen? The project has been dubbed \u201cChernobyl on ice&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}