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Nuclear Power in Commercial Shipping — Could It Happen? And When?
In 1959, the United States launched the NS Savannah, the first nuclear passenger-cargo vessel, followed by Germany’s Otto Hahn in 1964, Japan’s Mutsu in 1969, and the Soviet Union’s Sevmorput in 1986, which remains in operation today. Although these ships proved the technical feasibility of nuclear propulsion, they failed commercially due to high costs, small…