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I'm not sure you want to put nuclear fuel on average cargo ships. What happens when one gets hijacked?

• acidburnNSA 5y ago
  Security and piracy would be a new challenge, but I still think it's worth it to avoid all the current killer air pollution and CO₂ emission. You could make the core basically inaccessible except when in an outfitted maintenance shipyard and have a priority mobile security force to respond to such incidents. The ships should be designed to have a fail-safe sink function where it sinks and maintains the core integrity using seawater convection until a designed salvage operation can occur.
  • 8note 5y ago
    The bigger problem is sovereignty. Ships get detained sometimes when they're en route, or when they're stopped at Port. The mobile security force isn't going to be authorized to start a war
    • rodgerd 5y ago
      I, for one, cannot wait until Somalian pirates become nuclear-armed crime syndicates. I've always wanted to live in the worst bits of cyberpunk dystopias.