Russia’s interest in promoting nuclear power is real
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 6:00AM ARTICLE: “Russia Floats Plan For Nuclear Plant Aboard a Boat: Mr. Chilikov in Indonesia Finds the Idea a Tough Sell; ‘There’s 100% No Risk,’” by Tom Wright and Gregory L. White, Wall Street Journal, 21 August 2007, p. A1.
Sounds a bit wacky, and yet I’ve been in more than a few meetings on our side where the idea’s been floated with great seriousness (usually in disaster relief).
Clearly, Russia sees a strong global future in nuclear power and wants to be the big player in it, and one of its opening bids is “a fleet of reactor-equipped ships” that “are meant to provide electricity to remote areas.”
The bulk of the story is mostly about the quirky salesmanship of your average Russian entrepreneur, which is fun to read if only to remind us how wrong were all our predictions that Russians couldn’t adapt themselves to a marketized world.
Social Darwinism is a great theoretical argument, but life disproves it time and time again.
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