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Re:France planning new aircraft carrier by akmarinov on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:39PM (#25616288)
> Building nuclear propulsion for our next aircraft carrier is crucial for France to maintain the unique skills of its nuclear industry.

> If our engineers did not design on-board nuclear boilers for decades, we would weaken this know-how and our sovereignty.

Re:France planning new aircraft carrier by 11235813213455 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @07:32AM (#25621403)
Ok it's a side-effect benefit, but there has to be different ways to keep working on nuclear energy in more useful ways (useful for people, for the environment, by useful I mean at least not destructive, why not creating a cargo ship rather, or hybrid wind and nuclear powered cargo ships, ...)