Question about Nuclear Aircraft carrier in Japan

[(1VB)freels]

Hi all. I have recently gotten orders to the USS Geroge Wahington. It will be replacing the USS Kitty Hawk in 2008. I know that you probably have heard all the hub bub about there being a nuke ship in Japan. I have since I have been on 2 ships in Japan that were conventionally powered(Diesiel{sp} Fuel). I was wondering what you as FG's though about that. I know that I have seen lots of different types of personalities here and I wanted to get your ideas. Thanks ahead of time for reading my rabble!!!:)

[GuyJean]

Hi all. I have recently gotten orders to the USS Geroge Wahington. It will be replacing the USS Kitty Hawk in 2008. I know that you probably have heard all the hub bub about there being a nuke ship in Japan. I have since I have been on 2 ships in Japan that were conventionally powered(Diesiel{sp} Fuel). I was wondering what you as FG's though about that. I know that I have seen lots of different types of personalities here and I wanted to get your ideas. Thanks ahead of time for reading my rabble!!!:)

Nuke powered, or nuke capable?.. Don't have a problems with it since NK has steadily built-up it's nuclear arsenal in the past few years]MAD[/URL] will keep the peace?..

Just make sure you aim them in the right direction.

GJ

[Charles]

I think it's only fair that Japan should allow nuclear-capable US ships to dock, since I've seen a Russian submarine docked in Hakodate.

[CrankyBastard]

Just hope the "media" don't get the wrong end of the stick again!

The first Japanese nuclear powered merchant ship "Mutsu" was put to sea for the first experimental voyage in 1974. At 800 km east of cape Shiriya in Aomori, the alarm went off as it detected radiation leak when its crew brought the pressurized-water reactor up to 1.4% of full capacity. This incident made national headlines. Concerned about the dangers posed by the ship to the community and the fishing industry, the locals at Ohminato harbor, where Mutsu was built, refused to let the ship return to the harbor.
Report of "radiation" leak as "radioactivity" leak
The mass media reported radioactivity leak, instead of radiation leak. This made the community and the whole of Japan fear radiation contamination of seafood (scallop) and produced an image of Mutsu to be "the nuke-leaking ship". Officials and investigators inherited this terminology "radioactivity", fueling bitter protests and general public distrust. It caused a significant delay in the project while the government tried to persuade harbor authorities to allow the ship to berth.

http://shippai.jst.go.jp/en/Detail?fn=0&id=CA1000615&

[Greji]

Just hope the "media" don't get the wrong end of the stick again!

This is kind of interesting as it progresses. The media started out as if it was gearing up to its old No Nukes, Japan is the World's only Nuke victims and something happened.

I think it was part of the deal that was cut to move the some 3,000 marines from the third herd to Guam. That coupled with Uriabuji in NK blunted a lot of the usual anti-nuke and anti-US critics.

Strangely enough, a backlash has already begun on the movement and subsequent loss of the grunts. 3,000 jarheads also equal 3,000 paychecks which are pretty freely spent in the local area, plus the support Japanese MLC and IHA jobs that are going to be lost. The people in the local area are beginning to wonder if all these "Free Okinawa" committees headed up by people living in Tokyo and gaijins like Chalmers Johnson have any idea what is happening on the ground economically. Opposition to the move is apparently starting to surface, but it is a done deal.

As for the floating airplane patch, the Govenor of Kanagawa just approved its assignment, so that's also a done deal.

[Kuang_Grade]

Nuke powered, or nuke capable?..GJ

The hubbub is about nuke powered ships being home ported in Japan (ie, meaning it is going to be around frequently and not just stopping in for a few days once in a blue moon)...I believe, as a matter of policy, the US navy refuses to say if a given ship has nuke weapons on board or not.

[GuyJean]

The hubbub is about nuke powered ships being home ported in Japan.

I see.. Interesting they're concerned about that when their own power plants spring leaks every few years..

GJ

[(1VB)freels]

So as FG's do you support or do you oppose there being a Nuke powered ship in Jpan. Also the only thing about the engine is that it makes steam to move the turbine. I think one of you internet savoy guys can find a link or explanition into how a nuclear power plant works. It makes heat thne water is intorduced then steam then propulsion. Easy. Only bad thing is waste. But it's going to be a while till it has to be refitted so it doesnt have to get replaced till 202? I just would like to know how you guys feel.


P.S. Yes 3000 jarheads = about 3 million yen in money spent on beer and whores but its also 3000 jarheads that can fuck it up for the rest of us. Alot of them are stateside Mariens that are there for a year and go back. It's 3000 less headaches.

[CrankyBastard]

So as FG's do you support or do you oppose there being a Nuke powered ship in Jpan.

I haven't given it much thought really.
How will it affect me? Are there any pros or cons?
Will I end up paying more or less?

[Buraku]

Just hope the "media" don't get the wrong end of the stick again!

The first Japanese nuclear powered merchant ship "Mutsu" was put to sea for the first experimental voyage in 1974. At 800 km east of cape Shiriya in Aomori, the alarm went off as it detected radiation leak when its crew brought the pressurized-water reactor up to 1.4% of full capacity. This incident made national headlines. Concerned about the dangers posed by the ship to the community and the fishing industry, the locals at Ohminato harbor, where Mutsu was built, refused to let the ship return to the harbor.
Report of "radiation" leak as "radioactivity" leak
The mass media reported radioactivity leak, instead of radiation leak. This made the community and the whole of Japan fear radiation contamination of seafood (scallop) and produced an image of Mutsu to be "the nuke-leaking ship". Officials and investigators inherited this terminology "radioactivity", fueling bitter protests and general public distrust. It caused a significant delay in the project while the government tried to persuade harbor authorities to allow the ship to berth.

http://shippai.jst.go.jp/en/Detail?fn=0&id=CA1000615&

I'm not anti-Nuke because in theory Nuke power can and should be safe
but humans sometimes have a good way of fucking things up, just see what those Ruskies did in Chernobyl or the Three Mile Island Screw up.

There was also other small incidents like the ones mentioned by other FG memebrs like the American/Japan incident when the US pilot, plane and a nuclear warhead pitched off the deck of the USS Ticonderoga just of the coast of Japan, leaving radioactive contamination in the Ocean, Pentagon officials feared that the intense water pressure could have caused the Skyhawk's B-43 hydrogen bomb to explode. - or when the nuclear submarine USS Greenville struck and sunk the Ehime Maru fishing vessel .

[Charles]

There was also other small incidents like the ones mentioned by other FG memebrs like the American/Japan incident when the US pilot, plane and a nuclear warhead pitched off the deck of the USS Ticonderoga just of the coast of Japan, leaving radioactive contamination in the Ocean, Pentagon officials feared that the intense water pressure could have caused the Skyhawk's B-43 hydrogen bomb to explode. - or when the nuclear submarine USS Greenville struck and sunk the Ehime Maru fishing vessel .

Oh, why worry about small potatoes like that, when there are bigger problems. Like for example, the Russians decommissioned about 20 nuclear submarines by sinking them in the Barents Sea. Some of the wrecks have been rusting away on the bottom of the ocean for decades, and are leaking radioactive waste. The Norwegians were rather pissed when they found out about it.

[kurohinge1]

. . . the Russians decommissioned about 20 nuclear submarines by sinking them in the Barents Sea. Some of the wrecks have been rusting away on the bottom of the ocean for decades, and are leaking radioactive waste . . .

A Barents Barramundi