The Wikipedia article on Project Nobska claims that a nuclear powered 500 ton midget submarine and destroyer were proposed at the meeting, as well as a fuel cell powered submarine. Some Norman Friedman books are cited for this, so there might be something to these claims, but I haven't been able...
I found some interesting articles on small nuclear reactors and maritime reactors from the 1960s. The business case they make for the small reactors as well as how to construct and run them economically are quite similar to those made for small modular reactors today.
New Scientist No. 288 (24...
Richard J. Aldrich’s recent book ‘GCHQ: An uncensored story of Britain’s most secret intelligence agency’ features some information on the planned Sigint ship of the 1960s.
He gives a history elsewhere in the book about the operations of HMS Totem and Turpin in the 1950s. He goes on to say...
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To start this thread off, here's a recent article on Nuclear Merchant Ships (part of a series on the peaceful uses of Nuclear power). Includes information on the only four such ships to have been built so far: NS Savannah, USA; Mutsu, Japan; Sevmorput, Russia; and the Otto Hahn, Germany. Also...
According to Cold War submarines: the design and construction of U.S. and Soviet submarines By Norman Polmar, Kenneth J. Moore:
"The Royal Navy also considered - very briefly - the possibility of a small nuclear propelled submarine"
The book mentions these in the context of midget submarines...
In August 1965 TsKB-16, later Rubin, was directed to respond to the Tactical-Technical Elements (TTE) requirement for a large diesel-electric submarine LST designated Project 748. The design bureau, realizing the limitations of conventional propulsion for this submarine's missions, additionally...
although no pictures exist there is supposed to be a model of the proposed RFA replenishment ship with nuclear power in the massive Greenwich collection. I have never been able to get to see this model, but based on some small drawings of mercantile UK reactor designs in an old Airfix magazine...
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