Surface Ships and Submarines
Many military submarines, aircraft carriers and, owing to crude oil prices and emissions, a growing number of large civilian surface ships, especially icebreakers, use nuclear reactors as their power plants.
- See nuclear marine propulsion for civil use
- List of civilian nuclear ships
- nuclear navy for military use
- List of United States Naval reactors
- Soviet naval reactors
- Nuclear submarine
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