Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir, said during an interview this week that the U.S. needs to produce the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo ship.
Sankar made the remarks during a talk with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, who said that Sankar was “widely tipped to be part of President-elect Trump’s incoming senior leadership at DOD.”
He said that to continue having the U.S. be the world’s dominant naval power means that the U.S. also needs to remain the world’s dominant commercial shipping power.
“We still have a massive asymmetric advantage with our nuclear reactors,” he said. “I think we should build the first commercial nuclear-powered cargo ship fleet in the world that are American-flagged, American-made, leveraging our military’s greatest technology, driving the lowest cost of shipping in the world, bringing down inflation and the input…
