I agree that would be more environmentally friendly, but now you also need to train and employ how many nuclear experts to keep thousands of ships running safely? And this tech has existed for a while. If this was cheaper to do, I expect they would have already done it.
It’s not cheaper because it’s not heavily subsidised lie oil.
Had it been and SMRs would be further along the line and well within the realm of feasibility.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
I agree that would be more environmentally friendly, but now you also need to train and employ how many nuclear experts to keep thousands of ships running safely? And this tech has existed for a while. If this was cheaper to do, I expect they would have already done it.
0x0@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
It’s not cheaper because it’s not heavily subsidised lie oil. Had it been and SMRs would be further along the line and well within the realm of feasibility.