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Nuclear short sea shipping: The integration of a helium cooled reactor in a 800 Teu Container Feeder

AuthorJ.G.C.C.Jacobs, TU Delft
6-07-5-20-02.pdf
DateOctober 2007
Classification 6.07.5.20/02 (MISCELLANEOUS - NUCLEAR POWER AT SEA - SHIPS GENERAL / OTHER)
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Nuclear Short Sea Shipping
The integration of a helium cooled reactor in a 800 Teu Container Feeder




J.G.C.C. Jacobs

3ME TU Delft

MT1013122

06-24510207
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Table of Contents

Table of Appendices                                     8

Summary                                                10

1 Introduction                                         13

2 History Nuclear Merchant Ships                       15
  2.1 NS Savannah                                      15
  2.2 Otto Hahn                                        15
  2.3 Mutsu                                            16
  2.4 Sevmorput                                        16
  2.5 Compared nuclear merchant ships                  16

3 Conditional Demands                                  19
  3.1 Reactor Design Demands                           19
  3.2 Ship Design Demands                              19
  3.3 Radiation protection                             19
  3.4 Legislation for Dutch harbor visit               21
  3.5 International Legislation                        21
  3.6 Regulations for harbour visits                   22

4 Possibilities                                        25
  4.1 A Nuclear Coastal Containership                  25
  4.2 Samskip Trade Routes                             25
  4.3 Reactor Choice                                   26
  4.4 Concepts for heat engines                        27
  4.5 Assumptions for further development of concept   30
  4.6 Concept propulsion format                        31

5 Selected system design                               35
  5.1 Gas turbine                                      35
  5.2 Position of the reactor                          36
  5.3 Reactor dimensions                               36
  5.4 Shielding                                        38
  5.5 Reactor Design                                   42
  5.6 Heat ex