An item referred to an announcement that Japan intended to built her first nuclear-propelled ship. It was to be a flush-decked oceanographic survey ship annex experimental facility with as dimensions 285 x 45 feet, 332 tons deadweight and a pressurized-water reactor with a pari of 4,000hp steam turbines and 19 knots speed.
Source
A.W. Kramer. Nuclear propulsion for merchant ships. US Atomic Energy Commission, 1962.
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