BWXT and Crowley Developing Nuclear Power Generation Ships

Re:BWXT and Crowley Developing Nuclear Power Generation Ships by mcpackieh on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:03AM (#37598697)

The feasibility of convincing enough countries/port authorities to permit you park a nuclear reactor in their port is fairly low. If something goes wrong, they'll be the ones that have to clean up the mess after your shipping corp declares bankruptcy or otherwise skips out on the cleanup bill.

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Re:BWXT and Crowley Developing Nuclear Power Generation Ships by kjkjadksj on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:32AM (#37599181)

They don’t mind doing it when the ship is signed for the US navy though

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Re:BWXT and Crowley Developing Nuclear Power Generation Ships by mcpackieh on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:41AM (#37599327)

Some countries do mind even then (New Zealand particularly.)

But it's probably easier to believe the US would stick around to help clean up the mess, since the US Navy will presumably continue to exist and desire to operate in foreign ports in the future. A private shipping company on the other hand could effectively poof out of existence once they become liable for a nuclear accident cleanup.

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Re:BWXT and Crowley Developing Nuclear Power Generation Ships by TylerE on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:54AM (#37599531)

Also the Navy has a nearly 75 year history of safely operating floating reactors.

That's way more comforting than anything out of the "move fast and break things" crowd".

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Re:BWXT and Crowley Developing Nuclear Power Generation Ships by AtlasBarfed on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:32PM (#37601040)

Well, and an equally long history covering up major large-scale boondoggles and outright insane decisions that end up killing a lot of people.

I mean, you're probably still getting bombarded by Camp Lejeune ads. That's playthings to the military.

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