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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah Related ship back during the nuclear tech boom.
by sickofparadox 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah Related ship back during the nuclear tech boom.
- acidburnNSA 3y agoI recently found and got digitized an amazing documentary about the Savannah: https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2023-07-12-the-nuclear-ship-savannah-film-digitized.html https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2023-07-12-the-nuclear-ship-s... Also, she's currently for sale if you're interested. If they don't find a buyer it'll be scrapped.
- preisschild 3y agoThe reactor is unfortunately already removed though :(
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Related ship back during the nuclear tech boom To be clear, the NS Savannah was a showpiece. It was part passenger, part freight in a way that made no economic sense but looked fantastic and showed the concept could work. It ultimately failed because it had to bear the brunt of port negotiations. But that's a policy hurdle.
- sickofparadox 3y agoOh for sure, it was an atom corps show piece to flex their muscles, and probably also to entice ports to allow nuclear powered ships since many did not before it existed.