Would YOU take a nuclear-powered shower? Russia is now heating homes with a 'floating Chernobyl' power plant as part of an experiment to minimise climate change (but at least it doesn't involve a heat pump!)

MAILONLINE ^ | 5 November 2021 | By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR

[BenLurkin]

[DesertRhino]

I don’t know. Maybe we should ask half of the Navy if nuclear powered showers are safe.

[nascarnation]

That is truly remote!

[DesertRhino]

A heat exchanger, How exotic and unheard of.

[gundog]

A good model for the next ice age.

[McGruff]

it makes use of heat that's vented as steam through the cooling towers of the barge's nuclear fission plants, which would otherwise be wasted.

Sounds like it would lower Global Warming. Greta should be championing it.

[nascarnation]

Unless she’s advocating building nukes and carpet-bombing China’s coal plants, she’s just a total hypocrite.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Would YOU take a nuclear-powered shower?

Everyone who claims to care about global warming should. But that would require not being a hypocrite, and hypocrisy is the first commandment of the global warming enviro-cult.

[John S Mosby]

Wouldn’t need soap— just debride the dirt and oily dirty skin right off the derma.

Maybe.

Those craaaazy Russians. One comment: a colleague used to go to Kazakhstan on medical missions, and the number one complaint he dealt with were people of all ages coming in and pointing to their thyroid goiters/probable cancers caused from living in Stalin’s nuclear test site province. Thousands of them. Really sad. That and Chernobyl (the HBO movie is appallingly horrifying- because the bare truth did not need much dramatization).

[bobbo666]

Hot water is hot water. Unless their plant suffered two major leaks, no one would be at risk. And, if the plant suffered such leaks, it would be immediately shut down — same solution.

[allendale]

How difficult would it be to continuously monitor the steam for radioactivity? If it were present then immediately stop the distribution and shut down the reactor. There ought to be no leaks in a well engineered system.

[Dennis M.]

Right, it is safe and problems are easily detected.

[mylife]

submariners do it all the time, breath nuclear powered O2 also.

[Magnum44]

The Russians are experienced with nuke power. What could go wrong?

[Thud]

It’s even worse than that. The nuclear power is contagious.

[BobL]

Seems very practical even without the Left breathing down their backs.

[Bob434]

I pLayed the russian game about chernyobal where there was a bunch of mutants and wastelands and radiation everywhere. Very creepy game- made me jump more than a few times I. The game. It wasn’t great graphics, but the atmosphere they did in the game znd the sounds was really creepy feeling.

[Sequoyah101]

Now a heat pump is bad?

What next?

[ASOC]

I like the snappy Red, White and Blue color scheme.

What could go wrong? Akademik Lomonosov will use small modular reactor technology and is equipped with two KLT-40C reactor systems with 35MW capacity each. It has been designed to access hard-to-reach areas where it can operate for three to five years without the need for refuelling. It also has an overall life cycle of 40 years, which may be extended to 50 years.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Layout-of-the-KLT-40S-reactor-Source-11_fig2_278188044