JP
that is a real bucket of worms....going to a full up nuke navy is not only incredibly expensive just to manufacture the ships in the nuclear configuration...but in my mind incredibly short sighted.....there are several items i don't believe are being concidered.......the upkeep in maintenance.....the waste is still a major issue...yes...Naval Nuclear power plants are the safest in the world....yes the crew that mans them are the brightest and well trained...but increase that by another 300 ships and the price would skyrocket on those 2 factors alone.....
I worked Nuke testing for the navy for a yr ....trained in reactor plant ops....so...am I partial to the reactors on subs and other vessels...in a way....submarines ...no brainer....definitely worth the efforts and costs.....but for surface combat ships??...remember in the 60's we had the Truxton and bainbridge..big Cruisers .....they were scrapped and mothballed a number of yrs ago...they were so hot from radioactivity that they had to sit for 30 yrs to cool off before they could even start taking a torch to them......
with today's technology...it might be ok but then your still dealing with the waste....and we have no viable method of making radioactively contaminated material safe......
but....in my thinking ...as we have lots of destroyers with gas jet engines in them....those that are uninformed are missing out on bio fuels...which we have tested in everything from a 747 to a B52.....and it works....so that argument of alternative fuels for ships vs nuke pwr just doesn't hold water......
that's my 2 braincells firing off..
SP
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