re: #106 Bobibutu

The US Navy nuke reactors are smaller and built more robustly. The guys and gals who operate and maintain them are very highly trained. Not something that private industry could or would ever begin to equal.

True. Then we have the Russians, whose approach to nuclear power aboard submarines was “Okay, we take diesel sub, rip out engines, put reactor and turbines in their place, and send it to sea. Engineers will figure out how to operate it themselves.”

Works great, just ask the crew of K-19…be sure to carry a Geiger counter with you when you go.