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injipoint wrote:
On 26/09/2013 7:05 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:56:31 +0300, injipoint

wrote this crap:

Back when I was in white and gold, I watched, with a group of
others, a US CGN leave our little port (military) He had to
join up with a commercial dredged channel, not very wide.

He wandered slowly to the ENE to link up and turned. The area is
occasionally prone to Anti-Nuke nutsos and he didn't want to get
hampered in the channel. He was headed now WNW.

If you have a reactor as a power plant, you use it. So he
put the pedal to the metal and let it rip.

Not a wake, a rooster tail fully 50' high off the stern. We could
see it from 2 miles away.

They do move some water when they go by.

Just curious, how did it take the nuke to go from slow to go?
However, he could have powering up the reactor as he was leaving
the
channel and then just powered up the engines when he got clear
sailing. At nuclear electrical power plants it takes days to get
to
full power.

Don't drink and drive. Unless you have a good cup holder.

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Been powering up the reactors for a day probably. They'd never say.
Just switched the power to the engines when he turned.
The N-subs do the same thing, but no rooster tail. They
just go hell for leather so any dickhead on a surfboard
or in a canoe etc who wants to "stop" one for a
photo-shoot has to deal with something that's already doing
20knots "Sorry, couldn't stop in time"

I did not think the USCG had any conventional ships nuclear powered.
Talk
of nuke icebreakers being built by the US.

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Bill, I think he was referring to US Navy nuclear-powered guided
missile cruisers (CGNs).

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