Offshore Power Systems (OPS) was a company that almost succeeded in building a floating nuclear plant off the shore of New Jersey in the 1970's.
"Each floating nuclear power station (FNPS) would contain two or more FNPPs within a protective breakwater. The individual plants were to be 1150 MWe Westinghouse four-loop PWRs with ice-condenser containments. They had once-through steam condenser cooling with no cooling towers. Electricity was to be transmitted at high-voltage (345 kV) through submerged cables beneath the sea bottom."
As a side-effect, the plant would actually clean the oceans. To prevent trash from entering water intake, the trash collection system would've filtered 5000 lbs of garbage out of the ocean every day for each reactor.
Read more a this fascinating article by Nick Touran (@whatisnuclear):
https://whatisnuclear.com/offshore-nuclear-plants.html
#seasteading
#oceanreactors
#nuclear
The Seasteading Institute
"Each floating nuclear power station (FNPS) would contain two or more FNPPs within a protective breakwater. The individual plants were to be 1150 MWe Westinghouse four-loop PWRs with ice-condenser containments. They had once-through steam condenser cooling with no cooling towers. Electricity was to be transmitted at high-voltage (345 kV) through submerged cables beneath the sea bottom."
As a side-effect, the plant would actually clean the oceans. To prevent trash from entering water intake, the trash collection system would've filtered 5000 lbs of garbage out of the ocean every day for each reactor.
Read more a this fascinating article by Nick Touran (@whatisnuclear):
https://whatisnuclear.com/offshore-nuclear-plants.html
#seasteading
#oceanreactors
#nuclear
The Seasteading Institute