Eli5 why there are no nuclear powered cargoships

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I Heard that the 10 largest cargoships produce that Same amount of pollution then all cars combined.

Why are there no nuclear powered cargo ships?

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Regardless of the cost argument (which is valid), you can’t really have nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel floating around defenseless in the middle of the ocean or going to random foreign ports. Piracy is already a huge problem for cargo ships, and this would make every such ship the biggest target in the world.

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