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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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About Rod Adams

Rod Adams is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience, now serving as a Managing Partner at Nucleation Capital, an emerging climate-focused fund. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial discussion and analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology and policies for several decades. He is the founder of Atomic Insights and host and producer of The Atomic Show Podcast.

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  1. Avataruvdiv 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

    • AvatarRod Adams says

      August 18, 2010 at 5:31 AM

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

  2. AvatarJerry says

    August 18, 2010 at 6:05 AM

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

    • AvatarRod 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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