Your arguments for transport sound reasonable and would be the best case scenario. Nonetheless, nuclear power is dangerous and not widely used in shipping. The

Your arguments for transport sound reasonable and would be the best case scenario. Nonetheless, nuclear power is dangerous and not widely used in shipping. The ships that have nuclear reactors are either warships, where cost is not a factor, or huge ice breakers to enable shipping routes in northern russia. There is a push towards mobile power plants, but they have severe limitations, but could be an intermediary solution to help balance grids? I'm not sold here. Nice presentation of nuclear based ships - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilbOrNrAhOA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilbOrNrAhOA . For chemical processes we have a lot more work to do. While electric furnaces are used in steel production, they are used for recycling, not production of new steel. For this we need to use a reducing fuel for the iron oxide, which is usually carbon monoxide derived from coal. There are hydrogen based alternatives in development, but not widely used.