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The Lloyd’s List Podcast: Has shipping’s nuclear option reached critical mass?

2024/6/14
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Lloyd's List: The Shipping Podcast

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There is a growing body of opinion across shipping that is routinely referring to nuclear, alongside carbon capture technology, as the only real options on the table that will allow shipping to fully decarbonise by 2050.

Has the previously fringe option of nuclear powered ships now become sufficiently mainstream for the industry to genuinely consider leapfrogging ammonia and hydrogen as a more pragmatic solution?

Featuring Myrto Tripathi, chief executive of the NGO Voices of Nuclear Mikal Bøe, chairman and CEO of Core Power Matthieu de Tugny, president, Marine & Offshore, Bureau Veritas