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World’s first nuclear-powered LNG carrier receives approval in South Korea
Korean engineers have developed the world's first approved liquefied natural gas vessel powered by a molten salt reactor.
Korean engineers have made a massive step toward the future of clean maritime propulsion by launching the world’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, which is powered by a small modular molten salt reactor (MSR). The team, consisting of experts from the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and one of the world’s largest shipbuilders, Samsung Heavy Industries, announced that the vessel received Approval in Principle (AiP) on September 9. “We will continue our efforts to ensure that the MSR we are developing contributes to achieving carbon neutrality in the maritime sector,” Jin Young Cho, director of the advanced reactor research institute at KAERI, concluded in a press release.
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