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These huge ships should be nuclear powered like navy ships.
by asdff 4y ago
These huge ships should be nuclear powered like navy ships.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoYeah, put 100kg of high grade uranium or plutonium on a ship with 30 crew and sail it past somalia. Great plan. I mean assuming it gets there and doesn't melt down and contaminate an entire sea because of how well known the shipping industry is for not cutting corners. It'll also definitely not result in nuclear waste getting dumped wherever. I mean there's at least a chance that the nuclear reactor which costs 10x as much as the proposed electric ship will get stolen wholesale and used for civilian purposes, so that could be an upside.
- elcritch 4y agoI wonder if building nuclear ships that float in international water could sidestep some of the NIMBY-ism for nuclear power. I think some company might have already pursued that approach.
- buzer 4y agoThere has been a couple of attempts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Merchant_cargo_ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Merc... So far it hasn't really been economically feasible unlike icebreakers. Russia is the only one who is operating those.
- Zardoz84 4y agoYeah, but it have his problems... mainly that nobody likes to allow to dock it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah