alt Hacker NewsCorrect. And military nuclear vessels are also operationally safe because superpower navies are willing to spend a fortune on training and paying qualified nuclear engineers and technicians. Despite those large budgets they still struggle to maintain minimum crewing levels. Merchant lines can't afford the personnel expense.
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rbanffy • yesterday at 8:54 PM
For merchant ships we’d need completely sealed idiot-proof reactors. Those haven’t been invented just yet.
Also, we’d need to make them impossible to open and impossible to remove without cutting the ship in half.
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It has only been two years since the Baltimore bridge was destroyed by that container ship. Had known faulty maintenance, but they kept operating. Now the rest of us have to pay $5 billion to replace the bridge, plus whatever economic damage was done to surrounding industries.