This article is about a Russian plan to have small nuclear energy plants on barges out at sea. This caught my eye because there has been so much debate about alternative energies, and nuclear energy has become a very real concern in the past couple of decades. While a nuclear plant on a ship seems at first like a convinent and smart way to power Russia (and potentially other countries), the article raises several concerns, including the ability of the ships to withstand storms and possible terrorist attacks. As we have seen several times, most recently in Fukushima, nuclear meltdowns are disasterous on land and in the sea. I was reading a few days ago about how even two years after the Fukushima meltdown in Japan, tuna being caught off the coast of California are still radioactive. Clearly nuclear power plants have a lot of risks, and I’m not sure putting one on a ship in the ocean is the safest idea. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/10/131023-russia-floating-nuclear-power-plants/