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Column

Nuclear

Will the Effort to Reach

Zero Emissions Go Nuclear?

By Bob Kunkel, President, Alternative Marine Technologies

On December 8, 1953 merchant ship. She was built in the late 1950s at a cost

President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the 470th Ple- of $46.9 million and launched on July 21, 1959. Despite nary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. rumors and industry scuttlebutt, the vessel actually traded

The speech he delivered is often recognized as his effort to and carried cargo and was deemed to have completed its introduce “Atoms for Peace”, a program to move nuclear mission as a technical success.

? ssion and technology away from weapons development The Savannah has been moored in a Baltimore port and into clean energy. since 2008. Last fall, its nuclear reactor was removed as

As a result of that effort and program, the NS Savan- part of its decommissioning. As we continue discussing nah was built and delivered as the ? rst nuclear-powered the use of nuclear energy, keep in mind that the Savannah © Ezume Images / Adobe Stock 22 | MN November 2023