So what does SMR decommissioning look like?
At least this project has skipped the huge NIMBY issue by putting them on ships. And if anything goes wrong I'm sure nobody would mind glow-in-the-dark sushi...
Another point is that Norway has no way to process the leftover materials, and currently nowhere to store the processed materials.
So we need to ship the highly radioactive stuff abroad, and build a storage facility for when it's processed.
Norwegian offshore platforms means it's related to fossil oil/gas extraction.
However in recent years there's been strong pushback as people realized just how much power these platforms and refineries take, and what plugging them into our grid would do to electricity prices.
So this seems to be aimed at having your cake and eating it. We get "green" oil and gas, and no astronomical electricity prices.
SilverElfin•5mo ago
inejge•5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov
It's in the far north, I'm not sure how much fishing is going on around there, or how a potential radiological leak would spread around.
whaleofatw2022•5mo ago
phillipseamore•5mo ago