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NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. She was built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million (including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core) and launched on July 21, 1959. She was funded by United States government agencies. Savannah was a demonstration project for the potential use of nuclear energy. [6]
American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines, New York, was the leading US-flag shipping company between the U.S. east coast and the Mediterranean from 1919 to 1977, offering both cargo ship and passenger ship services, until it declared bankruptcy and was acquired by Farrell Lines of New York.
NS Savannah was stored for 14 years at James River, the first nuclear power cargo ship. USS Simon Lake (AS-33) a submarine tender, stored from 2015 to 2019, until scrapped. [12] USS Donner (LSD-20) leaked 1,000 gallons of fuel in 2000. [13] USS Suribachi (AE-21) a Suribachi-class ammunition ship scrapped in 2019. SS Red Oak Victory
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Nuclear-powered civil merchant ships have not developed beyond a few experimental ships. The U.S.-built NS Savannah, completed in 1962, was primarily a demonstration of civil nuclear power and was too small and expensive to operate economically as a merchant ship. The design was too much of a compromise, being neither an efficient freighter nor ...
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Funnel of Otto Hahn preserved at the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum in Bremerhaven. Otto Hahn was one of only four nuclear-powered cargo vessels built to date. Planning of a German-built trade and research vessel to test the feasibility of nuclear power in civil service began in 1960 under the supervision of German physicist Erich Bagge.