That sounds almost 1950's Soviet: "Okay comrade, we'll reverse the flow of that river there, build a landing strip for the nuclear powered aircraft, set the nuke plants down over by the river and if we have any fissionable material left over we'll build a couple bombs to loosen the permafrost on the way to the ore body."
From Eye On The Arctic:
New mining project sets sights on Chukotka in Russia’s eastern Arctic
Chukotka is the most northeastern region of Russia. (iStock)
The KAZ Minerals will install four small-scale nuclear power stations on the Russian Arctic coast that are to serve one of the world’s biggest copper mines, company CEO Oleg Novachuk outlined in a meeting with the Russian president.
The Baimskoye mining project will soon transform large chunks of vulnerable Arctic lands in Russia’s remote region of Chukotka.
The project that is to be launched in 2027 will ultimately include the extraction and subsequent procession of 70 million tons of ore per year. Two processing plants will be built, each with an annual capacity of 35 million tons, and the volume of copper produced is to reach 400,000 tons per year, KAZ Minerals CEO and Board Chairman Oleg Novachuk explained to Vladimir Putin during his visit to the Kremlin this week.
The company will invest $8,5 billions in the project, Novachuk confirmed. In addition come large sums of federal money in new infrastructure.
The Baimskoye will include not only open pits and the two processing plants, but also several hundred kilometres of new roads and power lines, as well as a new seaport on the coast of the Chukotka Sea.
Part of Northern Sea Route plan
All of it will be powered by four small-scale power stations to be built by Russian nuclear power company Rosatom. According to Novachuk, the installations will be based on four barges, each with a capacity of up to 115 MW. Three of the stations will at any time be in operation, while the fourth will be in reserve....
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