“China Reveals Plans For “World’s Largest” Nuclear-Powered Container Ship, But Will It Make A Splash?”

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China is trying to make maritime history by announcing its plans to develop the “world’s first” nuclear-powered container ship. And it’s not trivial; if successfully built, this thing would be huge and could represent a new era of nuclear-powered vessels. The KUN-24AP was unveiled at the Marintec China 2023 exhibition in Shanghai by Jiangnan Shipyard, though at the time of writing, details about this futuristic vessel remain obscure. For one thing, there is only one image of it in circulation, a digital model demonstrating the ship’s size and scale (it will apparently have a load capacity of 24,000 standard containers)....