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Online tour of NS Savannah available from Historic Naval Ships Association

August 18, 2010 By Rod Adams

NS Savannah at Waterside in Baltimore (June 2008)

If you have a bit of free time I highly recommend a visit to the online tour of the NS (Nuclear Ship) Savannah. The Historic Naval Ships Association site includes terrific photos that allow a virtual tour similar to the kind you can take at well designed real estate sites.

There is also a pretty good account of the ship’s history, its accomplishments, and the reasons for its early demise. I remain hopeful that the ship can still provide inspiration and illuminate a path forward for commercial nuclear ship propulsion. Just remember – one-of-a-kind ships with unique power plants are generally more expensive than series built ships and cannot easily compete in the market.

The answer for that challenge is to build more, not to build less, especially if the technology has more room for growth than the competition.

Additional reading and viewing

John Walker, founder of Autodesk and a coauthor of AutoCAD took a trip to the North Pole and documented his journey at Nuclear Ninety North. While on the cruise, he was one of the group of twenty that received a guided tour inside the engineering spaces on Russian nuclear icebreaker.

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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  1. uvdiv says

    August 18, 2010 at 4:26 AM

    Link is broken, should be
    http://www.hnsa.org/savannah/
    On the subject, here’s a 1960 wallchart of the Savannah:
    http://econtent.unm.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/nuceng

    • Rod Adams says

      August 18, 2010 at 5:31 AM

      Thank you for pointing out the broken link. I just repaired it.

  2. Jerry says

    August 18, 2010 at 6:05 AM

    inside Russia’s nuclear icebreaker http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2008/S006.html

    • Rod Adams says

      August 18, 2010 at 7:16 AM

      Jerry – thank you for the link. I have added it as additional reading and viewing on the blog post.

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