Training seafarers to be nuclear physicists: a nuclear take

N/S Savannah

This week, news emerged that a South-Korean shipyard, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), is positioning itself as a prospective builder of nuclear-powered merchant vessels.

For a nuclear-powered containership, there would be many upsides.

As The Loadstar previously discussed in analysing the KUN-24AP, such a vessel would have an outsize market share advantage, with improved cargo capacity over a conventional ship of the same size; zero-emissions in operation; and a higher speed, increasing the sheer amount of sheer container-carrying work the ...