The Cost-Effectiveness of Nuclear Power for Navy Surface Ships

Abstract

In recent years, the Congress has shown interest in powering some of the Navy s future destroyers and amphibious warfare ships with nuclear rather than conventional (petroleum-based) fuel. At the request of the former Chairman of the Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces of the House Committee on Armed Services, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated the difference in life-cycle costs (the total costs incurred for a ship, from acquisition through operations to disposal) between powering those new surface ships with nuclear reactors and equipping them with conventional engines.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA598622

Entities

People

  • Matthew S Goldberg
  • R. D. Trunkey

Organizations

  • Congressional Budget Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion
  • Aircrafts
  • Amphibious Assault Ships
  • Amphibious Operations
  • Amphibious Ships
  • Boats
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Marine Transportation
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Nuclear Powered Ships
  • Nuclear Powered Submarines
  • Nuclear Propulsion
  • Petroleum
  • Propulsion Systems

Fields of Study

  • Physics
  • Political science

Readers

  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Marine Hydrodynamics