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This is why the Navy wanted to get out ahead of this and perfect the claim to the patent. Cheap nuclear reactors would be an awesome benefit to an ocean going navy…not paying patent royalties on all those reactors would be an immense savings. This also permits the general adoption widely without the restrictions normal profit-motive patent enforcement would impose if a commercial actor was the patent holder.
https://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?PageNum=0&docid=20210090752&IDKey=2385E427DCA5