A Review of Maritime Nuclear Reactor Systems
Marine reactors have been applied to floating nuclear power plants, naval vessels such as submarines, and civilian ships such as icebreakers. Nuclear-powered shipping is gaining increased interest because of decarbonization goals motivated by climate change. Enhanced reactor safety can potentially r...
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| description | Marine reactors have been applied to floating nuclear power plants, naval vessels such as submarines, and civilian ships such as icebreakers. Nuclear-powered shipping is gaining increased interest because of decarbonization goals motivated by climate change. Enhanced reactor safety can potentially reduce regulatory and liability challenges to the adoption of nuclear propulsion systems for merchant ships. This gives strong impetus for reviewing past use of nuclear reactor systems in marine environments, especially from the perspective of any accident scenarios, lest planners be caught unaware of historical incidents. To that end, a loss of coolant accident (LOCA) in a Lenin icebreaker reactor in 1965 and disposal at sea of some of its damaged fuel and reactor vessel as well as the entire tri-reactor compartment is recounted. |
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| spelling | ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2673-4362/6/1/5/ 2025-03-02T15:30:32+00:00 A Review of Maritime Nuclear Reactor Systems Keith E. Holbert 2025-02-05 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/jne6010005 eng eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jne6010005 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Journal of Nuclear Engineering Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages: 5 floating nuclear power plant icebreaker Lenin accident marine reactor naval nuclear propulsion nuclear-powered merchant vessel nuclear ship Text 2025 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/jne6010005 2025-02-10T01:14:01Z Marine reactors have been applied to floating nuclear power plants, naval vessels such as submarines, and civilian ships such as icebreakers. Nuclear-powered shipping is gaining increased interest because of decarbonization goals motivated by climate change. Enhanced reactor safety can potentially reduce regulatory and liability challenges to the adoption of nuclear propulsion systems for merchant ships. This gives strong impetus for reviewing past use of nuclear reactor systems in marine environments, especially from the perspective of any accident scenarios, lest planners be caught unaware of historical incidents. To that end, a loss of coolant accident (LOCA) in a Lenin icebreaker reactor in 1965 and disposal at sea of some of its damaged fuel and reactor vessel as well as the entire tri-reactor compartment is recounted. Text Icebreaker MDPI Open Access Publishing Journal of Nuclear Engineering 6 1 5 |
| spellingShingle | floating nuclear power plant icebreaker Lenin accident marine reactor naval nuclear propulsion nuclear-powered merchant vessel nuclear ship Keith E. Holbert A Review of Maritime Nuclear Reactor Systems |
| title | A Review of Maritime Nuclear Reactor Systems |
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