Nuclear marine propulsion
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Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor. The power plant heats water to produce steam for a turbine used to turn the ship's propeller thr
When the nuclear-powered Arktika class 50 Let Pobedy was put into service in 2007, it became the world's largest icebreaker.
A nuclear fuel element for the cargo ship NS Savannah. The element contains four bundles of 41 fuel rods. The uranium oxide is enriched to 4.2 and 4.6 percent U-235
In addition to nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the United States once operated nuclear-powered cruisers.
The nuclear-propelled French submarine Saphir returning to Toulon, its home port, after Mission Héraclès
Thorium-based nuclear power
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Thorium-based nuclear power generation is fueled primarily by the nuclear fission of the isotope uranium-233 produced from the fertile element thorium. A thorium fuel cycle can offer several potential
A sample of thorium
Early thorium-based (MSR) nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s