Vessel Parameters

Vessel Parameters

Text Box: Many cities will require a lot of electric power and drinking water, and most existing nuclear power plants are very large, so the vessels should be as large as practical. But since the equipment is intended to be sold (or rented) all over the world, they should be small enough to go through the Panama Canal, and short enough to be accompanied by their tugboats. Since 1959 the Russians and the Soviet Union have been building nuclear powered ice breakers. The longest are the Tajmyr, which is 498 feet long, 96 foot beam, 21,000 tons, 171 Megawatts, and the Sojus, which is 485 feet long, 98 foot beam, 23,000 tons, 342 Megawatts. These provide a good starting point.

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Text Box: All commercial nuclear power plants are too big, but we know that ice breaker and submarine reactors would fit easily. This gives us a another design target. The U. S. submarine fleet is designed to never need refueling. By the time the fuel is spent, the whole submarine is obsolete. The whole ship goes back to the factory, and the used atomic fuel can be refined for new fuel. This is another design target. Most of our vessels will spend only a month getting to their first assignment, and if the users make regular payments, they will stay there until their fuel is exhausted (we hope this will be five, ten, or fifteen years). Then they will spend another month or less getting back to the factory. This means they will never have to move under their own power, and they will never have to move fast. Their long life and their crude underwater shape are two more design targets. If they are 500 feet long and 100 feet wide, those metric dimensions are 152 meters by 30 meters, and 4,560 square meters. With a draft of about 5 meters (16.5 feet), their displacement would be approximately 23,000 tons.

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