Nuclear coins can wait, tells Rosenergoatom

Not so long ago, Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region near to St Petersburg in Russia, has told about his plans to create a huge mining farm within the old building of the Leningrad nuclear power plant (read our previous report to find out why is it called Leningrad plant while the regional center city is called St Petersburg). He said that it would be good to use the old building, which the plant plans to move out from. The plant is going to be situated in a new building nearby, and the mining farm would stand right next to it, and the old reactor coolant system in the building could be reused for rigs coolant, and, of course, the energy would come from the plant. An ambitious project, but since then, the owners of the plant decided they, too, have a say in this.

And the local outlet now cites the source from Rosenergoatom. This source tells that the company is currently not planning to design this mining farm, explains that the old nuclear reactor removal is, in short, not just moving your laptop from one room to another, and has serious doubts that the project is going to be economically beneficial — neighboring region, Murmansk Oblast, 50-70% less costly energy that the one Mr. Drozdenko proposes to build the farm in.

Turns out that the skeptical look Leonid Davydov, Russian political scientist, gave Drozdenko at that joint interview Bitnewstoday described in the previous report on the topic, was for a reason.