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Originally Posted by Fuzz
This is from last year, but it's an interesting article about using nuclear power for the shipping industry. This feels like a really easy win, and despite the initial costs, I can't imagine it wouldn't save fuel costs tremendously. And it's not like it's a crazy idea, navy's have been power their fleets with it for over half a century.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesco...ar-propulsion/
The real question is, why are they not already doing this? |
Because the people who typically operate shipping vessels globally are definitely not the people you want to be handling uranium of any size. Certainly not grapefruit size.
Conversely, if someone could get a reasonable Thorium- saltwater reactor working it would likely be PERFECT for this application.