Nuclear Submarine Enters Floating Dry Dock - Timelapse

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Time-lapse video of the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS San Francisco (SSN-711) pulling into the floating dry dock Arco (ARDM-5) at Naval Base Point Loma. Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle Carlstrom | Commander, Submarine Squadron 11 | 04.02.2015

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newtboysays...

You can thank your favorite Ex-President, Carter, for that (at least in large part, he was an engineer designing and building the first nuclear subs).
Too bad land reactors aren't designed to be as safe or stable.

lantern53said:

Sure are a lot of safe nuclear reactors on those subs, providing power for a long term.

oritteroposays...

The funny thing is that either all or most of the land based nuclear power plants in the U.S. are actually based on designs for submarines. I've heard it suggested that many of the deficiencies of the designs come from there, and that a completely fresh design could be safer and better.

newtboysaid:

You can thank your favorite Ex-President, Carter, for that (at least in large part, he was an engineer designing and building the first nuclear subs).
Too bad land reactors aren't designed to be as safe or stable.

newtboysays...

True, but on subs they are kept to strict standards with military precision, while many land based ones have issues stemming from being stationary (they heat the water in one spot, and that must be dealt with, etc) and more importantly, they constantly experiment to try to get more out of them...which caused Chernobyl and 3 mile island. The lax standards have caused more, but less damaging issues.
All that said, I agree a fresh design could likely benefit both land and sea based reactors. I recall a Canadian design that was a 'warm' reactor that never made steam, so was incredibly safer to run constantly, from at least 15 years back. Not sure what happened with that.

oritteroposaid:

The funny thing is that either all or most of the land based nuclear power plants in the U.S. are actually based on designs for submarines. I've heard it suggested that many of the deficiencies of the designs come from there, and that a completely fresh design could be safer and better.

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