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Unfortunately you're incorrect. Accidents are very strictly defined, and none have happened in the history of the US Navy. There are incidents where reactor w
by jedc 17y ago
Unfortunately you're incorrect.
Accidents are very strictly defined, and none have happened in the history of the US Navy.
There are incidents where reactor water is released into the sea. These are rare, and the radioactivity released is almost minimal. Please recognize that there are different types of radioactivity depending on the elements involved. The highly radioactive particles remain part of the fuel itself. The average volume of water in a reactor contains particles that have quite a short half-life and are typically not widely dangerous.
Finally, I was speaking of the US Navy which does operate differently than the UK Navy.
- Adam503 17y agoThat's incorrect. "Accidents are very strictly defined, and none have happened in the history of the US Navy..." ...according to what isn't classified as a state secret. We have no idea whether or not the US Gov't has classified 0, 1, or many nuclear accidents the US Navy is responsible for. My clip about the Hanford reactor above stated there were 8 occasions at Hanford in which releases of radiation were classified and made a state secret. You cannot prove the safety record of the US Navy running nuclear reactors is clean, especially considering the limited info available about the losses of the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpian. I can document repeated incidences by US military and it's close allies in which nuclear accidents happened and then those accidents were classified as state secrets.