mo4ch:>Western media dubs Russia’s mobile power plant ‘floating Chernobyl’, but is it? | Mo4ch News
With the horrors of HBO’s dramatization of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster fresh in mind, the Western media has begun fearmongering about Russia’s latest nuclear innovation – a floating power plant built to serve the isolated Arctic.The mainstream media has dramatically dubbed the plant a “floating Chernobyl” – but is it all just hyperbole? In reality, the plant is based on long-established technology and concerns over nuclear Armageddon in the Arctic seem overblown to say the least.The Russian-built Akademik Lomonosov was issued a 10-year operating license in June and is slated to be towed to its final destination – the small Arctic port of Pevek in the remote Chukotka Region. There it will begin supplying heat and electricity to local consumers before year’s end. But the opportunity for Russia-bashing, however, that the story offered was too good to pass up. ‘Nuclear’ plus ‘Russia’ must equal disaster, the logic goes. Headlines warned that “Russia Is About to Tow its ‘Floating Chernobyl…