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They're designed to spend as much time under water as possible (i.e., months, basically). That's the whole reason for nuclear power on submarines.
by jhgb 5y ago
They're designed to spend as much time under water as possible (i.e., months, basically). That's the whole reason for nuclear power on submarines.
- soco 5y agoThe official requirement of the US Navy seems to disagree and I tend to trust they know better than us what they design their gadgets for. The metallurgist also thought they knew better, because they're operating submarines for their lives... oh wait.
- jhgb 5y agoWe have no knowledge of what those castings were used for. It's impossible to judge whether the requirement for these parts was excessive/copy-pasted, or not, and if it was, then by how much.
- soco 5y agoOkay I think I understand now where you're coming from and it was answered somewhere else in this discussion: when we receive a weird requirement we can ask for confirmation and clarifications and even express disagreement, but we will implement it after all that. Anything else would be at least disingenuous, if not worse.