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Icebreakers are not military vessels and they have nuclear reactors. Probably initial cost is the reason this did not become something more common.
by ExoticPearTree 17d ago
Icebreakers are not military vessels and they have nuclear reactors.
Probably initial cost is the reason this did not become something more common.
- lxgr 17d agoYes, but they're also not regular old merchant ships by any means. All existing ones see to be operated by a Russian government-owned corporation.
- sombragris 17d agoI guess this is not exactly "cost", but also lifetime spans. A nuclear reactor can sustain a ship for about 20+ years, and that lifetime is too long for many ships, who would be headed out to the scrap yard in less time than that.