China is designing a floating, nuclear-powered shipping port of the future (opens in new tab)

Jiangnan Shipyard, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp., has designed a massive offshore facility that functions simultaneously as a container terminal and a ship-recharging station. The floating island will be powered entirely by nuclear energy and renewable sources. The company wants to replicate the design and deploy these facilities across the world’s most critical shipping routes. This has the potential to create a network of ports outside any country’s ports, in open seas. Not...