State-owned Jiangnan Shipyard is designing a 25,000-container nuclear-powered vessel, its vice president Lin Qingshan told ...

For decades, nuclear power has been reserved for the most formidable naval vessels. Now, the shipping industry faces a pivotal question: Can nuclear technology power commercial ships? While adopting ...

China has revealed it is developing a cargo ship powered by a thorium molten salt reactor, highlighting new nuclear options for marine propulsion.

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As countries around the world try to tamp down emissions (well, some of them, anyway), a major target for improvement is the shipping industry. Ships produce 3% of all the world's emissions per year, ...

The commercial shipping industry is chasing a novel carbon-free propulsion technology as it pursues a lofty climate goal: nuclear power. Shipping accounts for more planet-warming greenhouse gas ...

A new report from Lloyd's Register and LucidCatalyst on behalf of Seaspan Corporation examines the benefits for a 15,000 TEU ...

The Virginia-class (CGN-38) was a class of four nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers built for the U.S. Navy between the ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran should enrich uranium to new levels close to weapons-grade to produce fuel for proposed nuclear-powered oil tankers, a conservative Iranian news website said Monday. Iran ...

A new paper titled "Facilitating Global Deployment of Floating Nuclear Power Plants" has been published by the World Nuclear Association's Cooperation in Reactor Design Evaluation and Licensing ...

A ship containing radioactive nuclear waste docked in Germany early on Tuesday, amid protests by anti-nuclear activists. The purpose-built vessel arrived at the Nordenham port in north-western Germany ...