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There are nuclear icebreakers. Nuclear powered non military ships do exist, it just not economically feasible .

• leosarev 10mo ago
  Much more economically feasible than battery powered ones.
  • ok_dad 10mo ago
    Prove it.
    • leosarev 10mo ago
      There are operating nuclear powered ocean vessels for decades.
      • manquer 10mo ago
        The parent poster means to say prove it is more economical, not that it is doable. It is hard to compute the economics of small nuclear reactors that use highly enriched fuel. A lot of it is funded by defense needs. Mixed use is largely to keep defense manufacturing active not because they are economically effective. If nuclear civilian ships were cheaper, there would be efforts to make a lot of them (In Russia and China if not other countries etc)