Fincantieri CEO Pierroberto Folgiero has said that he envisages the Italian company building ships powered with small nuclear reactors.
    "Nuclear power with smaller reactors allows it to be used not only on submarines and aircraft carriers, but also on smaller ships such as cruisers or even frigates," Folgiero said at a round table in Udine late on Monday.
    "This innovation would make us unique in the world'.
    Folgiero referred to a project called Minerva, which he said "aims to assess the feasibility of integrating new-generation nuclear reactors on naval ships".

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