7 Why not nuclear merchant ships?
Shipping has been an essential transport industry for all of recorded history. For all but 200 years ships on the high seas were propelled by sails, susceptible to powerful storms which could sink or wreck them, or equally to lack of wind which could becalm them for days on end.
Ships powered by steam or diesel engines can ride out the worst storms and cannot be becalmed. Today they can carry people and goods all over the world though personal international travel is mainly by air, and sea travel is on ferry services or on cruise liners for a holiday.
From about 1970 with the arrival of the wide-bodied turbo-fan powered aircraft, international leisure travel has increased rapidly. The great ocean liners of ...
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