The MIT Maritime Consortium released a safety handbook for nuclear-powered ships on October 20, 2025, a move that arrives as the shipping industry wrestles with how to decarbonize vessels large enough ...

The American Bureau of Shipping and South Korea's HD Hyundai have signed a joint development project for the conceptual design of a nuclear-powered electric propulsion system for a container ship.  ; ...

Can commercial ships go nuclear? The idea of powering commercial ships with nuclear energy has been talked about for decades, but has never moved forward because of costs and safety concerns. And it ...

Exploring the potential of nuclear-powered ships to clean up shipping and reduce carbon emissions. Alternative fuels, such as methanol, ammonia, and hydrogen, are being considered alongside renewable ...

A Russian cargo ship that sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean under unusual circumstances last year is believed to have been carrying parts for a type of naval nuclear reactor, according to a new ...

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...

A Bloomberg analysis suggests the nuclear push comes too late to stop China’s nuclear capacity from overtaking the U.S. fleet at the start of the next decade.