Collectifission on Nostr: As we seem yet another one of these nuclear container ship articles come by, I keep ...

As we seem yet another one of these nuclear container ship articles come by, I keep missing something that has been raised in my comments again and again: what about piracy?

For my two cents: I don't think piracy is going to be a huge issue. We're talking about industrial scale equipment here, not something you could likely steal, unless you take the whole ship with you.

And say you do, then what? I have a humble guess that there aren't many nuclear engineers among Somali pirates, that know what they're doing when it comes to this stuff. So, what could they realistically do with it? Even the scenario of a 'dirty bomb' is far fetched: the physics just don't really work out for this material that has low enrichment.

So, let's move on with this and decarbonise the world's container shipping fleet already.

#Nuclear #Shipping

https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/nuclear-power-container-shipping-could-be-possible-within-the-decade/