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Cool idea. Though, wouldn't such a ship-based system be vulnerable to, say, hurricanes? If you're tethered to shore and suppling a population with (their expect
by germinalphrase 10y ago
Cool idea. Though, wouldn't such a ship-based system be vulnerable to, say, hurricanes? If you're tethered to shore and suppling a population with (their expected) power - you can't exactly maneuver out of the hurricane's path without interrupting service(?).
This clearly isn't an everyday occurrence.
- acidburnNSA 10y agoThanks. That's a key question. Inclement weather is a challenge, but not an unmanageable one. Case in point, behold the Prelude [1], Shell's new 500m long floating LNG facility (and the biggest ship in the world). It is designed to handle a category 5 cyclone off the north-western coast of Australia (the crew may be evacuated beforehand though). You can design ships to handle pretty much anything, for a price. Finding the balance is required. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_FLNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_FLNG Another new concern of offshore nuclear is the physical protection. Can some terrorist in a mini-sub get near it and sink it? With high frequency sonar and whatnot this should be doable. It's probably harder to get to a big ship than to a land-based plant. And again the worst case would be the sink and recover plan.
- throwaway729 10y agoThe population should be evacuating anyways. And it's much preferable than the alternative, which is lost power and also a meltdown...