though, building safe nuclear power takes a great deal of time — something we are pretty much out of when it comes to averting climate change — so putting our climate hopes in nuclear power to save us may be effectively moot.Starting with the obvious, floating nuclear reactors can only be used where there is sufficient water for them to float, so either in the open ocean or in sufficiently wide waterways like large rivers.
Princeton University nuclear expert Harold A.
"We can guarantee the safety of our units one hundred percent," Zavylov added,"all risks are absolutely ruled out." It's important to remember that hurricanes and tsunamis out in open seas can be dangerous, but they are far less so than along coastlines, where the displaced water runs into often-populated coastal areas, leading to massive storm surges and worse. Any floating nuclear power plant will be just as vulnerable to these forces as any other large vessel along a coastline.
Ultimately, the actual risk that floating nuclear power plants pose is not known since we simply don't have enough of a sample size to definitively measure it, though that's actually a good thing. Having lots of data points of past nuclear accidents and what caused them isn't the kind of thing anybody wants to see, but for most of us, that might be out of our hands.