nuclear-powered ship

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ship
noun[C]
uk
/ʃɪp/us
/ʃɪp/
a large boat for travelling on water, especially across ...
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Only last week they announced their intention not to proceed in the immediate future with anuclear-poweredship.
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I take it that they are reactor projects and not firm propositions for building anuclear-poweredship.
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I quite agree, because the ultimate objective is to build anuclear-poweredshipwhich is economically competitive with a conventional one.
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I think that before the end of the year it should be possible to decide whether the time has come to build anuclear-poweredship.
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He was then referring to the possibility of this country having a commercialnuclear-poweredshipin the water by about 1964.
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Can we be told why it seems so much easier to make progress with aeroplane construction than withnuclear-poweredshipproduction?
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The submarine, commissioned in 1954, was the firstnuclear-poweredshipof any kind.
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I cannot agree that there will be a large number of nuclear-powered ships on the oceans in two or three years' time.
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Is he aware that we were then promised that within two years we should have nuclear-powered ships at sea?
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Not only are we behind on nuclear-powered ships.
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On the other hand, that leaves a gap in the law relating to nuclear-powered ships.
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I am not at this moment aware of the number of nuclear-powered ships there are, but it is clear that their numbers will grow.
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The question of the rights of warships and of nuclear-powered ships is notoriously controversial, as we know.
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Other countries have qualified the right of innocent passage with respect to nuclear-powered ships.
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It is probably as important to get on with nuclear-powered ships as with some of the new aeroplanes.
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Nuclear-powered ships and submarines, although powered by steam-driven turbines, are not referred to as steamships.application of the gas turbine for propulsion.
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It has pioneered an environmentally safe method of deactivating and recycling nuclear-powered ships.
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Additionally, the power requirements of the system were so huge that only nuclear-powered ships could provide the necessary power to operate the system.
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Nuclear-powered ships and submarines use a nuclear reactor to create steam for turbines.
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At that time, there was some anticipation that nuclear-powered ships might reduce the need for alongside refueling.
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