I love nuclear power, but there is a huge gap between how the Navy runs their nuke fleet and how the civilian maritime world operates. Navy nukes are some of th

I love nuclear power, but there is a huge gap between how the Navy runs their nuke fleet and how the civilian maritime world operates. Navy nukes are some of the most insanely anal and uptight professionals you will ever meet. It's a zero-defect culture, because it has to be. The job of civil maritime is to provide commodity supply - the only way to make money over the long term is to be a low cost operator. The best (usually Greek) shipowners will milk every last dollar out of an asset, which down in the bilges means fixing boilers with duct tape and bailing wire. That's not how you want to run a nuclear plant.