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by rsaxvc 895 days ago
I've been on one. Aircraft carrier.

Edit: commenter seems to be editing without noting their edits. This comment was written against a their comment in a different revision.

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For extra clarity:

> Nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers are powered by onboard nuclear reactors. Atoms in the nuclear reactor split, which releases energy as heat. This heat is used to create high-pressured steam. The steam turns propulsion turbines that provide the power to turn the propeller. Additional turbines also make electricity for the ship. As the steam cools and condenses back into water, the water is directed back through the system, and the process starts again.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/nuclear-submarines-and-aircraft-....

It is a fucking shame politics, ideologies and greed for power makes the world so fucked up. It would be great if instead of nuclear powered air carriers we had nuclear powered cargo ships.
> It is a fucking shame politics, ideologies and greed for power makes the world so fucked up.

I'm thinking we could treat those as emergent behaviors of flawed human nature.