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"This rig can't be torn out of moorings, even with a 9-point tsunami, and we've even considered that if it does go inland, there is a backup system that can keep the reactor cooling for 24 hours without an electricity supply," said Dmitry Alekseenko, deputy director of the Lomonosov plant.
This is reminiscent of this infamous line.
"Not even God himself could sink this ship.”
— Employee of the White Star Line, at the launch of the Titanic, May 31, 1911
I can see it now.
Headlines 2022:
Floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov destroyed by a tsunami leaves vast expanse of Arctic region uninhabitable for 30 years
With no possibility of a clean up in this remote Arctic region and fish kill in the billions, the Akademik Lomonosov languishes on the rocky shoreline. It's nuclear reactor a mangled jagged twist of metal. No one knows what the full effect of the radioactive contamination will be in the atmosphere but some scientists say…
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