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  2. Nuclear-powered cruisers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1960s, the United States Navy was the world's first to have nuclear-powered cruisers as part of its fleet. The first such ship was USS Long Beach (CGN-9). Commissioned in late summer 1961, she was the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant. She was followed a year later by USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25).

  3. NS Savannah - Wikipedia

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    She was in service between 1962 and 1972 as one of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built. [2] (The Soviet ice-breaker Lenin, launched on December 5, 1957, was the first nuclear-powered civilian ship.) Savannah was deactivated in 1971 and after several moves was moored at Pier 13 of the Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland in ...

  4. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) - Wikipedia

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    USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy and the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant. [3] She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Long Beach, California.

  5. Lenin (1957 icebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    Lenin (Russian: Ленин) is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world. Launched in 1957, it is both the world's first nuclear-powered surface ship [2] and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel. Lenin entered operation in 1959 and worked clearing sea routes for cargo ships along Russia's ...

  6. USS Nautilus (SSN-571) - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear power had a crucial advantage in submarine propulsion because it is a zero-emission process that consumes no air. This design is the basis for nearly all of the US nuclear-powered submarine and surface combat ships, and was adapted by other countries for naval nuclear propulsion. The first actual prototype (for Nautilus) was constructed ...

  7. Nuclear marine propulsion - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Research reveals China has built prototype nuclear reactor to ...

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    Pursuit of a nuclear-powered carrier. China’s first carrier, commissioned in 2012, was a repurposed Soviet ship, and its second was built in China but based upon the Soviet design.

  9. Nuclear-powered icebreaker - Wikipedia

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    The first nuclear icebreaker was the Soviet vessel Lenin, which was launched in 1957 as the world’s first nuclear-powered surface vessel and the first civilian-operated nuclear vessel. [2] An experimental nuclear-powered vessel, Lenin began icebreaking service along the Northern Sea Route in 1959 and continued to do so until 1989. [3]