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Samsung has introduced a marine model B 2100 phone. The specifications indicate that this model is India specific to withstand monsoon, dust and heat. The price is around INR 7000.

Some interesting features of Samsung Marine B 2100 are:

• Waterproof & Dust Resistant
  • Complies with the IP57 (Ingress Protection) standard
  • Submersible up to 1 metre for 30 minutes
• Compliant with US Department of Defence with Military Standard 810F (MIL-STD-810F).
• Rated to withstand blowing rain, dust, shock, salt, sand, fog, humidity, water, immersion, solar radiation, vibration, and extreme temperature.
• Outdoor-friendly Features
  • Extremely loud external speakers
  • Noise cancellation feature optimized for noisy condition
  • Incandescent embedded flashlight
  • Temperature resistant – (-20 to +60 degree Celsius )
• Network: GSM/GPRS
• Weight : 102.8g
• Dimension : 113 mm X 48.9 mm X 17.4 mm

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Italy has signed a contract to build a ship to transport safely the toxic radioactive waste from the Russian nuclear submarines that are dismantled. The radioactive waste from the shipyards and naval bases during dismantling will be shipped to ports through this ship and then transferred, by railway, to treatment and stocking sites.

Some of the interesting features of the ship to be built are:

• to be designed and built by Fincantieri,Italian ship builder with 200 years of shipbuilding experience at their Liguria yards
• at a cost of 71.5 million Euros, to be financed by Italy’s Ministry for the Economic Development
• the multi-function ship will be
  • 84 metres long
  • 14 metres wide
  • with a full-load draft of 4.05 metres
  • 720 ton cargo capacity
  • 1,700 ton deadweight
  • cruising speed of 12 knots
• the ship will have two hermetic cargo holds capable of holding a total of 18 containers, 40 tons each
• the ship will have a revolving electro-hydraulic crane with a lifting capacity of 45 tons and a radius of 4–15 metres
• will be able to autonomously navigate for 60 days with a cruising range of 3,000 nautical miles
• the ship will be able to carry all types of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste
• to be delivered in 2011
• Rosatom, the Russian Body for Atomic Energy is the technical guarantor for the operation and Italy’s Ministry for the Economic Development will be the financial guarantor of the agreement
• to be built under the supervision of the Russian Naval Registry in accordance with all Russian and international safety standards
• the ship on delivery will be under the operational control of Atomflot, Russia
• the contract was signed on July 28 in Moscow

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Every country wants to build up and strengthen its submarine arm. What is the reason ?

• Firstly, to ensure energy security. At present many countries meet their energy requirements by import of oil. As the oil is transported through the seas (more than 90 percent of world trade is through the seas), the competition to have control over the seas and to protect their energy sources by different countries is on the rise.
• Secondly, every country wants to have high precision second strike capabilities in case of nuclear attacks.
• Both of these are possible only through submarines and that too with nuclear powered and nuclear armed submarines. This is the reason for the increase in number of submarines in the oceans.

As the number of submarines operating in the oceans are increasing, the possibilities of accidents taking place in the submarines are also increasing.

In case of submarine accidents:

• How the crew in the submarines are going to be rescued ?
• In case of nuclear powered submarines, how the nuclear radiation is going to be monitored and how the marine debris is going to be handled ?

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Russia is presently building the world’s first Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) of 70 MW ‘Academic Lomonosov’. The project was launched in 2007 and is expected to be commissioned in 2011. Five such plants are expected to be operational by 2020. The FNPP under the Russian flag would operate in coastal states that had signed the necessary agreements. The FNPP would drop anchor in a safe place protected from potential natural disasters and operate with the assistance of local engineering services available on shore.

The interesting features of Floating Nuclear Power Plant are:

• under construction at Severodvinsk, Sevmash Shipyard located at northern White Sea which is the main facility of the State Nuclear Shipbuilding Centre.
• to generate 1/15th of the power produced by a standard Russian nuclear power plant.
• to be equipped with two power units using KLT- 40S reactors.
• reactors will be loaded with nuclear fuel once every three years.
• cost of electricity: just 5 or 6 cents per kilowatt.
• the first plant would cost around 10 billion Rubles ($ 0.42 billion).
• the remaining plants would cost around 5 to 6 billion Rubles ($ 0.2 to 0.25 billion) each.
• designed to be protected from the following potential terrorist threats using fingerprint and iris identification technologies.
  • unauthorized access to fissile materials onboard the plant
  • against possible subversive attempts by terrorist divers
  • nothing would destroy the reactor even if an airliner as big as a Boeing crashes on the plant
• will also be able to supply heat and desalinate seawater.
• on desalination mode, will be able to produce 240,000 cubic meters of fresh water a day.
• will save up to 200,000 metric tons of coal and 100,000 tons of fuel oil a year.
• will have a life span of 40 years.
• every 12 years the plant will be taken to Russia for overhaul.

More than 20 countries have shown interest in this project. Cooperation in this project with India,China,Indonesia and many African,Latin American countries are in pipeline. Depending on the agreement it may involve technology transfer or sale of only products of the plant: like electric power, heat and fresh water.

Here is the longitudinal section of a FNPP.

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