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dan-robertson
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UK's first small nuclear power station to be built...
The Royal Navy only uses nuclear power for submarines, at least for now (unlike USN which uses it for big aircraft carriers)
lazzurs
1 day ago
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Making the two new UK aircraft carriers dependent on natural gas has to be one of the worst military procurement decisions of the modern era.
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7952
1 day ago
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Its fuelled with diesel, not natural gas. And all carriers need refuel at some point for their embarked aircraft.
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crote
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Sounds like it is time to dust off those nuclear-powered airplane blueprints from the 60s!
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7952
10 hours ago
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The USN have a research project around using electricity to produce synthetic fuel from sea water.
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