Nuclear Sub Leaked Radioactive Water During Controversial Sasebo Stay

[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]CNN: U.S. sub leaked radioactive water, possibly for months
Water with trace amounts of radioactivity may have leaked for months from a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine as it traveled around the Pacific to ports in Guam, Japan and Hawaii, Navy officials told CNN on Friday. The leak was found on the USS Houston, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, after it went to Hawaii for routine maintenance last month, Navy officials said. Navy officials said the amount of radiation leaked into the water was virtually undetectable. But the Navy alerted the Japanese government because the submarine had been docked in Japan... The Navy on Friday notified the Japanese government of the leak, the officials said, and told them it was possible the ship had been leaking while in port in Sasebo, Japan, in March. While Japan has agreed to allow U.S. nuclear-powered ships in Japanese ports, the decision was a not popular in Japan...more...

[Cortana]

much ado about nothing. Not only would any amount of water be massively diluted by entering the sea at large, this is probably such a small amount of actual radioactive material so as not to be detectible from anything but immediately close range.

(former navy nuclear power engineering lab tech.. i tested reactor water every day for a long time)

[Mulboyne]

Even if people accept that the damage is virtually non-existent - which is what all reports suggest - the question they'll be raising is: could it have been worse?

[Mulboyne]

It didn't take long:

...A civic group opposed to the deployment to Japan of the nuclear-powered George Washington said the leak raises doubts about the safety of the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered vessels. "The claim...that the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered vessels are safe and are not susceptible to radiation leaks has completely broken down," Masahiko Goto, a lawyer representing the group said in a statement. Goto called on the U.S. Navy to disclose the causes of the radiation leak and urged the Japanese government to seek complete disclosure...

[Bucky]

[Tsuru]

BRITISH and French nuclear submarines which collided deep under the Atlantic could have sunk or released deadly radioactivity, it emerged last night.

:smashpc:

Fuck The Sun guys, really...

Here was me over my morning tea thinking I was reading about an Anglo-French nuclear disaster, while in fact all it is, is a bunch of speculation and hyperbole on the count of some asshole tabloid "defence editor" who wasn't there to begin with. Fuck him.