![]() 1 France refuels its nuclear submarines every 10 years. In 2016, Australia did not wish to develop the infrastructure required to supply fuel for a nuclear-powered ship. The deal replaces one that Australia reached with France in 2016 under which Australia would have received 12 French Suffren-class submarines equipped with conventional propulsion rather than the nuclear propulsion used by France. Both submarine types have life-of-ship cores, which means they should not have to be refueled during their design lives of approximately three decades. weapons-grade uranium enriched to more than 90 percent uranium-235 that was declared excess to weapons needs following the drastic downsizing of the U.S. Virginia-class attack submarine and the UK Astute-class submarine, in production since 19, respectively.īoth submarine classes are fueled with U.S. The AUKUS countries said that it would take 18 months to work out the specifics of the deal, but obvious candidates for the submarine designs to be provided to Australia are the U.S. Not expected to be operational before 2040. The purpose is to strengthen the alliance trying to contain a growing Chinese navy. security pact (AUKUS) under which the United States and the United Kingdom will assist Australia in building at least eight nuclear-powered attack submarines. President Joe Biden joined UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to announce an Australian-UK-U.S. ![]()
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