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From: chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Nuclear Navy
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Date: 3 May 91 12:25:26 GMT
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From: Irving Chidsey <chidsey@smoke.brl.mil>


wade@ucs.ubc.ca (Doug Wade) writes:
<On a related topic whatever happened to the Savanah (sp?) - a nuclear
<powered merchant ship?

On # 2, They 'proved the concept' and retired it.  I think it cost
much too much to run.  The fuel was 'free', but the nuclear engineers to
use the 'free' fuel weren't.

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