On 1/17/2014 7:51 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:55:28 -0500, wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:03:03 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:24:14 -0500, wrote:
Yes it would. Let me know when you finish drinking your product
water and I'll come over with a Geiger counter.
I have to believe they have good radiation detection equipment on any
ship built since the Truman administration.
I wonder if the detection/monitoring system turns on when the Captain turns the key, or if it must
be turned on when someone gives the order.
John, you're kidding of course. This is a nuclear powered aircraft
carrier. It is monitored constantly.
BTW, I was just reading about the precautions taken in the design and
operation of nuclear powered Navy ships and submarines due to the close
proximity of living next to a nuclear reactor for extended periods of
time. The precautions in design are orders of magnitude greater than
that required for a civilian nuclear power plant and the crew on a
nuclear powered naval vessel is actually exposed to *less* radiation on
a daily basis than you and I are exposed to from natural sources. The
hull of the ship itself is a barrier to external radiation exposure.