Operation report on review results of the nuclear ship "MUTSU"

Aomori Research and Development Center

With regard to "Offshore Floating Nuclear Power", which is currently under-consideration for design and development, the findings from the Nuclear Ship "MUTSU" are attracting attention from the perspective of operating at sea. The Nuclear Ship "MUTSU" is the only nuclear-powered ship designed, built and operated in Japan. Utilizing this knowledge will be extremely useful for the realization of future "Offshore Floating Nuclear Power". For this purpose, we examined the materials related to the Nuclear Ship "MUTSU" and confirmed the materials that proposed the points to be improved in equipment, based on the power increase test and the experimental voyage, etc. by the persons concerned at that time. We believe that these materials are useful for the design and construction of next-generation nuclear-powered vessels and will be helpful in considering the design and development of "Offshore Floating Nuclear Power". Since these materials have not yet been released, they will be re-edited the contents of 1994 so that they can be made available to the public, and their findings will be able to be made widely available.