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The Only Nuclear-Powered Passenger Ship EVER

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Eisenhower's Savanna

A cube of uranium, a little bigger than a Rubik's cube, could send the savanna around the world more than a dozen times. It's the equivalent of burning 28 million gallons of fuel. Eisenhower wanted to show the world what nuclear power could do. The ship only carried passengers from 1962 to 1965 and we weren't alive.

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