Curious - The Future of Nuclear Power!?

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10:15 2002-02-06

UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR POWER STATION TO BE BUILT IN CRIMEA

A sensational report was published yesterday in Ukrainian Internet-edition

ForUm. In the city of Sevastopol, a small underground nuclear power station

is planned to be built. The sensation could be placed in an underground

gallery, at a depth of 80 m. There is such a gallery on the territory of a

thermoelectric power station in the city of Inkerman. To consider the

project, special working group of functionaries and deputies was created by

the joint decision of Sevastopol city administration and Inkerman city

council. Actually, that was one of the group's members who reported to the

ForUm journalists about this project.

The question is about nuclear power station with capacity of 300 megawatt,

that should solve the problem of energy supply in Sevastopol. According to

ForUm, project researches could be carried out by specialists from St

Petersburg and Kiev, though if questions of equipment and fuel supply

connected with this building could be settled, one more question remains to

be unsolved - burial of nuclear waste. According to already existing

projects, the waste fuel will be kept in Sevastopol as well, while this fact

cannot satisfy the citizens. However, if the project is realized, its

authors suppose, other Crimean cities could also get their nuclear power

stations.

Of course, Crimea needs its energy sources, though such a cardinal decision

could finally have more minuses, than pluses. For example, much efforts are

necessary to persuade tourists underground nuclear energy is safe. If it is

really safe, what is the question. Even a small "regular" breakdown could

for a long time deprive the peninsula of tourism incomes.

Though, at the moment the question is only about plans. Any official

confirmations or refutations of the ForUm report have not appeared yet.

Andrei Lubenski

PRAVDA.Ru

Ukraine

Translated by Vera Solovieva

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