[cripplecreek]

I tend to agree. let them do the early work and testing, then we can use the technology and make it better.

However, any accident that spreads radiation will pretty much kill any further nuke ships for a very long time.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I tend to agree. let them do the early work and testing, then we can use the technology and make it better."

The US already has the technology sitting on the shelf. It's called NERVA, and was developed in the late 1960-70 time frame before the antinuke greens contaminated politics.