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USS Indianapolis

66 years ago today… a ship’s cargo that changed the world.

By On July 26, 2011

66 years ago today, USS Indianapolis (CA-35) arrived at the Pacific island of Tinian to deliver the firing mechanism and uranium-235 material for the first atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, [...]

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Russian Icebreaker Pulls Into Port After Nuclear Scare

By On May 18, 2011

With the news of nuclear troubles in Japan, another close call largely escaped the press. On May 6th the Russia’s Taimyr, a nuclear-powered icebreaker deployed in the Yenisei Bay, battled [...]

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A Story Of (Irrelevant) Nuclear Success At Sea

By On March 27, 2011

gCaptain has covered nuclear ships in the past highlighting America’s only nuclear merchant ship, the N/S Savannah and brought you pictures from Russia’s nuclear icebreakers but we missed one piece [...]

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Ship Tracking Of Pacific Ocean Fallout – Japan Nuclear Crisis

By On March 17, 2011

gCaptain has spent the last few days working with a few government agencies (AMVER, NOAA, NASA) to determine the extent of the fallout over the pacific. As of this morning [...]

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U.S. Navy repositions ships after contamination detected from Japanese nuclear power plant

By On March 14, 2011

PHOTO: USS Blue Ridge courtesy U.S. Navy USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC 19) – At Sea (NNS) — The U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and aircraft away from [...]

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Let Pobedy: A Tour Of The World’s Most Powerful Nuclear Icebreaker

By On January 20, 2011

Launched in Saint Petersburg Russia the NS Ural was not actually commissioned until 2007. By that time it had a new name, the NS Let Pobedy, and a new designation [...]

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Russia’s Floating Nuclear Reactors

By On October 1, 2010

BBC brings us news of Russia’s push to build the infrastructure needed to operate in the Arctic and control of the large reserves of oil and gas thought to lie [...]

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The World’s First Nuclear Merchant Ship – NS Savannah

By On July 13, 2010

The United States first and only Nuclear powered merchant ship was designed in hopes of finding peaceful uses for Nuclear energy as part of the Atoms for Peace program. President [...]

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MARINER WAKE UP CALL – China’s Growning Submarine Fleet

By On May 13, 2008

Experts attempting to understand the strategic aims behind China’s aggressive military expansion have generally focused on Taiwan. But a new naval base points at Beijing’s significant and growing interest in [...]

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Russian Nuclear Icebreakers: to the North Pole!

By On March 30, 2008

The Picture Blog, Dark Roasted Blend is featuring a series on Russian Nuclear Icebreakers. Here’s a sample: The balance of the pics are here. Paired up for the voyage The [...]

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What If? Chemical, Biological, Radiation Attack San Francisco

By On March 28, 2008

Photo by steven and darusha Jeff Charlton of 911team.org in London asked a interesting maritime question on the IAEM list-serve the other day that Robin Storm thought we could answer. [...]

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gCaptain Quiz – Unusual Cargo

By On March 13, 2008

What is it?? A free gCaptain t-shirt goes out to the first person who can correctly identify this cargo. UPDATE: We have a winner. Charlie of Sea Wolf Engineering correctly [...]

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