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On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:11:05 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
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. I'm going to start looking for an apartment on an aircraft carrier. As to the other, I'm sure there are many detection/monitoring devices associated with the power plant. But, would that include drinking water, the air on deck, airplanes which may have flown through the stuff, etc. At least one article mentioned crew members with radiation detectors on deck checking various items. So it would seem there are areas, items, or whatever not normally monitored for radiation. I don't know, just supposing. Oh, and do you mean to tell me that the Captain doesn't have an ignition key for that damn thing? |
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