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Not sure about trains, but large ocean-faring nuclear-powered tugboats have been considered to move container ship sized barges most of the way and then let battery or fossil powered tugs bring em the final mile into port.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1963...



Yo dawg we heard you like containers so we turned your container ship into a container!


Theres exactly one nuclear powered cargo ship in existence the Sevmorput.

There used to be 4. The reason there arent more is because like all things nuclear it just costs too much.


Well, if you don’t count the massive negative cost everyone has to bear when burning bunker fuel.




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