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Re:World’s Largest Containership Also Sets Record for Larges... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @10:27PM (#8660983)
When I toured the USS Carl Vincent (a nuclear air craft carrier) at Alameda I was surprised at how "small" its engines were relative to large container ships. It helps that they are electric of course (no big gas expansion chambers) but I suspect if it weren't for the proliferation concerns cargo ships of this size could be economically run on nuclear power plants.
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Re:World’s Largest Containership Also Sets Record for Larges... by beefman on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @02:57AM (#8661467)
Indeed, Nimitz-class carriers have far more powerful engines,[1] as do as do Russian-made icebreakers, which are civilian ships,[2] as did Savannah, an American civilian ship.[3]

Edit: Carl Vinson, like most nuclear-powered vessels to date, is direct-drive. The Ohio Replacement Submarine is slated to have electric drive.[4]

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4W_reactor

2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker#Russ...

3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah

4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Replacement_Submarine#Ele...

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