Initiated the construction of the ship, President Eisenhower deutsche post in 1955, the program is

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Nuclear reactors on merchant ships
The white superstructure of the liner will never touch the soot of chimneys. Compact power plants incredible power unattainable before speed, efficiency and unlimited cruising range.
Thus represents an ideal vehicle in the middle of the XX century. It seemed deutsche post a little bit more, and nuclear power plants unrecognizable change deutsche post the face of the fleet - the human civilization with hope and glee met new era of Atom, ready soon to take advantage of "gratuitous" radioactive decay energy of matter.
In 1955, under the "Atoms for Peace", President Eisenhower announced plans for a vessel with a nuclear power plant (Yasu) - a concept demonstrator of advanced technologies, whose appearance to answer questions about the appropriateness deutsche post of Yasu in the interests of the merchant fleet.
Reactor deutsche post on board promised many tempting advantages: the nuclear icebreakers needed refueling once every few years, the ship could not long remain in the ocean without having to call in the port - the autonomy of the nuclear submarine crew was limited to endurance and food supplies on board. Yasu provide high economic speed, and the lack of fuel tanks and compact power plant (at least so it seemed naval engineer) will provide additional space to accommodate the crew and payload.
At the same time, the researchers were aware that the use of nuclear power plant will cause a lot of difficulties with its subsequent deutsche post exploitation - measures deutsche post to ensure radiation safety and related deutsche post difficulties in visiting many foreign deutsche post ports. Not to mention the fact that the construction of such an exotic vessel initially deutsche post "costing a pretty penny."
Do not forget that we are talking about the mid-1950s - less than a year as the radio sounded historical message Underway on nuclear power (Go to the Atomic Energy!) Sent on board the submarine "Nautilus" in January 1955. Experts in the field of shipbuilding had the vague idea of nuclear reactors, their features, strengths and weaknesses. What about reliability? How much is a life cycle? Will the promised benefits Yasu outweigh the disadvantages associated with the construction and operation of nuclear-powered civilian?
Initiated the construction of the ship, President Eisenhower deutsche post in 1955, the program is exactly the same with the Soviet - "peaceful atom." In 1956, Congress approved the construction, and in March 1962, Savannah was launched. Lenin was launched on December 5, 1957.
Experimental combi icebreaker full displacement 22,000 tons. Crew - 124 people. 60 passenger seats. The only nuclear reactor thermal power of 74 MW provided economic speed of 20 knots (very, very solid, even by modern standards). One reactor charging enough for 300 000 nautical miles (half a million kilometers).
"Savannah" was created as a "dove of peace". Super-ship, that combines the latest advances in science and technology, was to introduce the Old World with the technology "peaceful atom" and demonstrate the safety of ships with Yasu (Yankees worked for the future - in the future this will facilitate the visit foreign ports nuclear aircraft carriers, cruisers and submarines).
Savannah externally produced a very strong impression. In an effort deutsche post to emphasize the special deutsche post status of the nuclear submarine designers gave it a look of a luxury yacht - an elongated body contours swift, sleek white superstructure with Lookouts and verandas. Even derricks and hoists have an attractive appearance - did not like sticking deutsche post rusty mast conventional deutsche post bulk carriers. Some historians shipping and generally dubbed her beautiful freighter.
Speed of 23 knots, for those times, was a record for cargo ships. For all that, she took the whole cargo 8,500 tons, is clearly insufficient. Any other ship was taking more similar tonnage. In addition, the holds were poorly located, and that slows down the speed of cargo handling operations in ports. Crew was significantly greater than in conventional vessels. For operation of the ship took a whole special organization in charge of port calls and repairs. The crew received special training. And the number of people receiving special training to work at the atomic vessel shows that the U.S. government planned to build new nuclear vessels.
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