just a follow up question.
All this made me wonder, why doesn't the RN opt for a Nuclear propulsion
for their carriers?
Sure it must be a little more expensive to install (200 million $ per reactor acc. to US NAVY) but so is fuel I would guess, also it would have gotten rid of the exhaust, made for a better smalller island , and limitless 20 year full speed, I would think?
Not that it would need to be a British design, but an American of the shelf reactor like the new A1B on the CVN78 would have done the job , no?
+150000HP is about what you get now with the complex setup of no less than 6 powersources, all of different size and even different fueltypes (GAS and diesel).
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mragheb/ww...Propulsion.pdf
Or is this just a dumb question on my behalf ?