Stay with me ' it's not entirely far-fetched. Thanks to advances in AI, computing, and superconducting magnets, fusion power is closer than ever to commercial reality. It's increasingly looking like fusion is more a question of 'when' not 'if.' And when it does happen, it promises to deliver large amounts of clean power from a plentiful fuel source ' water. Putting a reactor on a ship isn't necessarily unreasonable, either. Today, submarines and aircraft carriers powered by nuclear fission reactors routinely prowl the seas. They're quiet, powerful, and can operate for decades before they need refueling. The civilian sector even toyed with the idea of nuclear-powered cargo ships back in the 1960s and 1970s. Fusion promises to give ships similar capabilities but without concerns over meltdowns, proliferation, or radiation. For now, the sector has been focused on building the first reactors on land. 'I'm pretty sure we're the first people to ever really look at what is it like to put a...
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