A submarine which is powered by a nuclear reactor. The United States Navy runs many of these out of naval bases such as that at Pearl Harbor.

Nuclear power is good for submarines because it lets them operate for a long time without surfacing to refuel. A nuclear submarine does not necessarily carry nuclear weapons.

Some early nuclear submarines had a problem with their reactor cooling systems which caused their sterns to glow blue with Cerenkov radiation.

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