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To keep trade flowing, the US is now using aircraft carriers to move containers around the globe

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All US aircraft carriers are nuclear powered so no more burning fossil fuels. Environment = Saved 🌱
- I remember reading about nuclear powered shipping vessels being pitched a few years ago.
  
  Given the state of a lot of ships, I wouldn't want these companies using nuclear power
  
  Yeah, a lot of people don't understand how little oversight there actually is when it comes to the maintenance of cargo ships, and how hard it is to enforce the bare minimum.
  Most shipping companies are untrustworthy when it comes to anything that might impact their profit margins.
  
  There’s a great YouTube channel that covers shipping disasters: Brick Immortar (https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=-BNDub3h2_I). Haven’t personally verified any of it though.
  
  Yay Invidious
  
  The problem is that most countries don’t have a port to accept a nuclear vessel and don’t want one in their country.
  
  There’s certainly a cost of doing business. That’s theirs to make.
  
  lol, there actually was a few, but that is back in ye old days. 1968 - Otto Hans. 1972 - Mutsu. 1988 - Sevmorput (only one still running - but planned decomission is apparently in 2024)
- Well, they still have a ton of greased up machinery below deck and they still need to properly store and dispose of bilgewater, so not perfect by any measure, but still way better than any other type of shipping.
  
  a ton of greased up machinery below deck
  Title of your sex tape!
  
  You must have me confused, I'm the star of Dick Pickens Does the Right Thing Rides the Bombshell to Hell.
  
  12nm out to sea, everything is legal!
  Just remember, dilution is the solution to pollution

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