Surface Ships and Submarines
Many military submarines, aircraft carriers and, owing to crude oil prices and emissions, a growing number of large civilian surface ships, especially icebreakers, use nuclear reactors as their power plants.
- See nuclear marine propulsion for civil use
- List of civilian nuclear ships
- nuclear navy for military use
- List of United States Naval reactors
- Soviet naval reactors
- Nuclear submarine
Read more about this topic: Nuclear Propulsion
Famous quotes containing the words surface and/or ships:
“Bees
Shaking the heavy dews from bloom and frond.
Boys
Bursting the surface of the ebony pond.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
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—Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)