They would be decoupled from immediate earthquake effects, but not from subsequent tsunamis.
Had there been such a ship moored off the Tohoku region of Japan in 2011, there would have been less than an hour to mitigate damage. Not even enough time to put to sea, let alone shut the reactor down. That might well be as if one of the Fukushima reactors had been uprooted and carried inland.
"Survive the worst-case tsunami" is an engineering problem with possible solutions. If they can convincingly solve this problem, they'll have a much easier time finding customers.
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They would be decoupled from immediate earthquake effects, but not from subsequent tsunamis.
Had there been such a ship moored off the Tohoku region of Japan in 2011, there would have been less than an hour to mitigate damage. Not even enough time to put to sea, let alone shut the reactor down. That might well be as if one of the Fukushima reactors had been uprooted and carried inland.
"Survive the worst-case tsunami" is an engineering problem with possible solutions. If they can convincingly solve this problem, they'll have a much easier time finding customers.