Nell GreenfieldboyceThe photos of this nuclear-powered cruise ship from the 1960’s are wild—it is like a perfectly preserved time capsule, with atom-themed light fixtures and tableware. A small wooden cube illustrates the amount of uranium fuel needed to circumnavigate the globe over a dozen times.
3mind@nellgreenfieldboyce Demonstrating the civil use of nuclear energy, it also showed quite well the main problem of nuclear energy in general: „…despite its efficiency, Savannah was never economically viable. It required special fuel-handling facilities to load and unload its nuclear core. And decommissioning has taken decades and cost far more than it could have ever made moving cargo or people.“
Including all relevant secondary costs, nuclear is *never* economically viable.
Including all relevant secondary costs, nuclear is *never* economically viable.