why submarines use nuclear power, but other sea-faring military vessels don’t.

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Realised that most modern submarines (and some aircraft carriers) use nuclear power, but destroyers and frigates don’t. I don’t imagine it’s a size thing, so I’m not sure what else it could be.

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The USS Long Beach was a nuclear powered cruiser but the US Navy found her too expensive to operate so future reactors were limited to subs and aircraft carriers.

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