BWXT’s Jonathan Stephens moderated the “Advancing Nuclear Powered Maritime Shipping” session, featuring, from left, Savannah Fitzwater of the DOE, Meg Albrecht of Lloyd’s Register, Scott Edwards of Core Power, Sanjay Mukhi of Deployable Energy, and Xiaodong Sun of the University of Michigan.
At the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference on June 1, an executive session covered the increasingly prominent subject of nuclear applications in the civilian maritime industry.
Panelists who presented during “Advancing Nuclear Powered Maritime Shipping” highlighted the fact that the commercial shipping industry, the nuclear industry, and government agencies are looking at nuclear power as a solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, 3 percent of which are attributed to commercial shipping.
Core Power CEO Mikal Bøe addresses a Houston, Texas, summit. (Photo: Nina Rangoy)
U.K.-based Core Power has announced that it intends to develop a maritime civil nuclear program anchored in the United States with the goal of bringing floating nuclear power to market by the mid-2030s. The program, called Liberty, is to encompass the modular construction of advanced reactor technology and create the regulatory and supply chain frameworks needed to begin the mass production of floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs) on a global scale.
Concept art showing a FNPP design. (Image: Glosten)
A team of innovative companies has plans to bring floating nuclear power plants to U.S. ports.
Core Power, a maritime and nuclear technology company, announced in January a new partnership in with naval architecture company Glosten. The pair is working on a design for a floating nuclear power plant (FNPP) that could generate up to 175 gigawatt-hours of clean electricity annually and provide clean power to ships, equipment, and port vehicles, Offshore Energy reported.
