diesel-electric subs going to nuclear

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Warpspeed Guru Joined: 09/08/2007 Location: Australia Posts: 4406	Posted: 09:12pm 27 Sep 2021       There is a lot more to the technology than just fitting an engine that glows in the dark. While the sub itself can go right around the world submerged, and run for decades on its original fuel, the extra technology comes from the completely closed life support system for the crew that then becomes necessary. Recycling the same air becomes a real problem similar to long duration space flights. I also wonder what happens to the reactor core and depleted fuel when these subs are scrapped in about twenty or thirty years. Maybe they will just bury it all under Parliament House in Canberra.