Straight from the "whatever next" playbook

France is proposing to build underwater reactors, perhaps besting - or more accurately, "worsting" - Russia's floating reactor concept. As if the seas around northern France aren't contaminated enough by the radioactive effluent pumped from the La Hague reprocessing plant, small reactors would lurk just offshore, risking a Deep Horizon type disaster, nuclear style. The "anchored" reactors would be a joint project of DCNS, the French state-controlled naval company, Areva, EDF and the French Atomic Energy Commission. More at Remy Parmentier's blog.