It's because the US Navy can just decide to do it without years of red tape and mountains of paperwork. National security cuts through the red tape. I don't th

It's because the US Navy can just decide to do it without years of red tape and mountains of paperwork. National security cuts through the red tape. I don't think the government owning civilian reactors would help if they don't reform the process that means it takes 10+ years and millions of pages of documentation to get anything done.