Comments on: U.S. Nuke Sub Leaked Radiation, Japan Says

Officials Claim Navy Vessel Dripped Radioactive Water For 2 Years At 3 Different Ports

[mgeg1]

Wasn''t McCain just claiming that nuclear technology is safe based on the results of nuclear submarines? I have no problem with building more nuclear power plants, but that doesn''t look good for McCain''s rationality.

[squidly8]

I was a nuclear trained machinist on an LA class sub in the ''80s. Some valves have caps over them and water accumulated in the cap to the point where it leaked out of the small vent in the cap. I can''t count how many times I took caps off these valves - thousands. It is a non issue. The Navy classifies systems to be potentially contaminated even if they never touch the reactor or it could be theoretically possible for them to get some contamination. They are sampled on a small interval basis and in my time, never heard of anything EVER being found.

There is no more anal-retentive group than NAVSEA08 which administers the Navy''s nuclear program. If they announced it and gave a number, I believe it.

There will be the usual nuts screaming about this being a huge incident. Then they will log off, go to the airport to catch a flight, go to the dentist/doctor to get an X-ray, go out to the beach or as the article says get a bag of fertilzer or a new smoke detector. All of these expose you to an increased radiation level but they never give a second thought to these "incidents" of radiation exposure.

Yawn.

[eggy1620]

"If we add all radiation leaked at every Japanese port, it would be still smaller than the amount of naturally occurring radioactivity found inside home smoke detectors," the Japanese foreign ministry said

That''s less than 1 microcurie. How in the world was that detected and measured?