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A 595-foot ship that sailed 450,000 nautical miles on 163 pounds of uranium is running out of time to find a home, the plan to move her to a museum berth just fell apart, and the first nuclear-powered merchant ship ever built could end up in a scrapyard

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The 1950s promised a nuclear version of pretty much everything, and Detroit played along. Ford showed a concept car in 1958 called the Nucleon, designed to run on a swappable reactor capsule mounted behind the cabin, and it mercifully never got past a scale model. But one piece of that atomic…
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BizToc broke the news on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
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