Decarbonizing shipping has turned out to be very difficult, and the scale of the challenge is also too large to produce green alternative fuels using the ...

Since the U.S. military developed the first nuclear marine propulsion system in the 1940s, atomic power has played a critical role in extending the range and sea time of vessels. Starting with 1954's ...

The commercial shipping industry is chasing a novel carbon-free propulsion technology as it pursues a lofty climate goal: nuclear power. Shipping accounts for more planet-warming greenhouse gas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China plans to build the world's first nuclear-powered container ship, a project that could change commercial shipping as the ...

Nuclear power isn't just for naval ships anymore as demonstrated by the Nuclear Propulsion in merchant Shipping (NuProShip II) project led by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology which ...

Hyundai is embarking on an ambitious project to revolutionize the shipping industry by developing a nuclear-powered container ship. This innovative vessel will utilize small modular reactors (SMRs) ...

No civilian maritime nuclear facilities have been commissioned in over four decades, but there’s been three major reports released this month on their future potential. DNV’s latest report, Maritime ...

The need to regulate nuclear-powered ships is a matter that will only grow more pressing with the passage of time. After decades in which the world’s only nuclear-powered merchant ship, the NS ...