Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah.

That was the claim for the NS Savannah, a nuclear-powered cruise ship born out of President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” initiative. The ship was a joint project of several government ...

Initiated after his Atoms for Peace speech in 1953, the NS Savannah was the first civilian merchant ship powered by a nuclear propulsion system. President Eisenhower hoped the NS Savannah could ...

The NS Savannah has never sailed again. In the 80s and 90s it was berthed at the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in South Carolina, before being put into storage. Decommissioning of the ...

nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah. The Savannah is the only nuclear-powered merchant ship the U.S. ever built, and the only nuclear vessel in the world designed with passengers in mind.