#Nuclear Submarine

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Barbara Eden in a production still for the film “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (1961)

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SUBMARINE!!!!!

We have a submarine now!

It has missiles and everything! I'm so excited, even if it's an older model.

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USS Baton Rouge - Los Angeles class nuclear powered attack submarine

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🇺🇲 Happy 248th Birthday to the United States Navy - Semper Fortis ⚓.

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So if y'all wanna see submarine shenanigans that are not about rich white men building deathtraps, I highly recommend "The Hunt For Red October".

Bone-chilling undersea action? Check.

Military/political intrigue from the times when stuff with Tom Clancy's name on it was actually good? Check.

Sean Connery portraying a Lithuanian captain of an experimental Soviet Nuclear Sub? Check!

Did I mention it's about an Experimental Soviet Nuclear Sub yet? Check.

An epic soundtrack from the " Starship Troopers" composer Basil Poledouris? Heck yes! Check!!

A star-studded side-cast that includes Sam Neill, Tim Curry, James McFucking Earl Jones, and probably some other names I forgot? You bet your sweet ass, check!

Dumb-ass DSVs made by dumb-ass people? None-existent!

I hope y'all will see my point (but also don't take my rambling 100% seriously) and watch that awesome movie.

One ping only, pleash.

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What's your favourite person from history whom most people don't know the name of?

Aw fuck that's not easy to answer. Actually this is quite easy to answer if we increase the weight of the condition "most people" someone like Marie Curie or Earnest Rutherford would work. But I won't cheese your question instead I will tell you about Hyman G Rickover the man who was perhaps the biggest fan of nuclear submarines the world will ever see.

Brosky was working with people to make a nuclear reactor for big ships, I think destroyers I don't know my ship types, really big ships. Anyways he's looking at this tech and he thinks "man imagine if we put a reactor in a submarine that'd be pretty cool" so he tells his boss and his boss is like "look at this idiot, fuck this guy" and get Hyman reassigned to like a shit post or something just not great. Naturally Hyman does this like a bunch more times and truly nobody gives a shit, everyone thinks it's a dumb idea that'd never work.

Now at this he's been at this for a good deal of time, but he finally gets a boss man who's receptive to his idea and sends it up the chain. Bam! Suddenly Hyman off to the races. He works up a plan, some schematics, ect.. you get it, gets his ducks in row and sends his plan off to the nuclear regulatory commission. Now if you don't know who they are, they had absolute authority on everything nuclear, actually don't know if they're still around. Anyway if they didn't like your idea, your reactor, your nuclear plane, your bomb, whatever it was they don't like it you don't do it.

Naturally they looked at Hymans plans and said this is a terrible idea, look at this fuckin idiot. So he sends a different, if similar plan, and gets rejected again. He does this so persistently they start rejecting his proposals as soon as they realize his names on it. (This would be a cool story if he just lied about who he was but honestly what he did instead was approximately 9000x cooler)

Like two years after he starts working on his nuclear sub idea, called the Nautilus, he gets himself appointed as a director in the nuclear regulatory commission. I'm not 100% certain as to how high that is, whether he was big man in charge or part of council. Realistically probably the later. Regardless, this baller ass man is now the person who gets to decide if a reactor is made.

So he submits his proposal again, and wouldn't you know he approved it as well. Undoubtedly a terrible conflict of interest and indicative of some rather terrible hiring practices, but good for nuclear submarines and actually like everyone on earth. Dude bro made this reactor, with a team, that was like super tiny and when it exploded was pretty tame all things considered. Plus it was a water steam reactor, meaning to resupply you just more fuel rods and more water, the first of its kind. There are more effective reactors, there are more efficient reactors. Most reactors produce plutonium as a waste product, and some funky peeps, I believe in Japan, created plutonium reactors that used waste plutonium for nuclear fission.

But that plutonium reactor, when it was created in France, exploded, admittedly due to user error, and was nearly catastrophic. Haymans reactor on the other did explode, in the U.S and nobody gave a shit. I believe there were three casualties, one dead, because he got hit by the door of the reactor. Quite literally the safest reactor ever invented. Every reactor in operation currently is based on Hayman's design.

Hayman was legendarily concerned with nuclear safety. For all that his motives in getting the position, while the/a director for the nuclear regulatory commission, there were 0 reactor explosions in the entire U.S navy. Let me repeat that 0. He earned a shit ton of medals too, cause he was really good at his job.

He revolutionized, with help, nuclear energy and saved countless lives from the potential risk of more dangerous reactors. Admittedly did so by creating weapons of war, which also killed people

He died in disgrace after a scandal, which, I believe, he was not culpable for, and accepting bribes which he was culpable for

[zekekaiju]

One time I had a dream were I found out that the Loch Ness monster was actually a nuclear submarine being tested by the Scottish government. They wanted my help finding it because I was really good at swimming and might have been able to breathe underwater I'm not sure. I said "no way" but they said that my girlfriend was on board when it went missing and I said " gosh darn it Christy" and agreed to help find it. So I swim down and find a secret cave in Loch Ness with the submarine and my girlfriend. Plot twist there is also a plesiosaur in Loch Ness but it has been mutated by the radiation and now has tentacles that it can shoot laser beams out of and telepathic abilities. It wants my help using the nuclear submarine to take over the world ( I am in very high demand in this dream). Christy is already helping it but she might have been mind controlled I don't fully remember, but obviously I refuse. So the Loch Ness monster shoots some tentacle beams at me. I managed to dodge them but they are super radioactive so they'll kill me anyways. At this point Christy disappears so I assume she got away, don't really know. Since I'm dying anyways I figure I better make sure the Loch Ness monster also dies. So I taunt the Loch Ness monster with the fact that it's nickname is Nessie but it is a boy monster and that's a girl's name. This drives the Loch Ness monster into a rage and it starts blasting at me. At the last second I jump out of the way and the laser hits the nuclear submarine and causes it to explode killing the Loch Ness monster and giving me super powers. I was super strong and super tough and could make energy tentacles and stuff. The dream pretty much ended there. Below is my artistic rendition of what the Loch Ness monster looked like in my dream

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84 years to be exact.

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USS Nautilus

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Nuclear Submarines

Not many are aware that countries across the world have nuclear submarines. Powered by mini nuclear reactors, these subs have been around since the mid 1950’s. From the EPA, “In 1954, the Navy launched the first submarine that used radioactive material as a power source. Its name was the USS Nautilus and it was the first submarine to travel to the North Pole in 1958.” But the United States was not the only nuclear state producing such machinery.

               While the U.S shared its information on this new technology with Britain, “French, Russian and Chinese developments proceeded separately,” (WNA ‘Nuclear-Powered Ships’). All were looking towards nuclear power to run their newest navy submarines.

               These submarines are powered by miniature nuclear reactors. None, to the public’s knowledge, have nuclear warheads on board though. That does not mean there is no threat with the sensitive substances being used to run the powerful vessel. The Soviet Union has had multiple radiation leeks over the years. The World Nuclear Association comments the nation has had “…five [accidents] where the reactor was irreparably damaged, and more resulting in radiation leaks. There were more than 20 radiation fatalities.” As always with nuclear power, there is a give and take. It can run an entire submarine, no need to refuel. But there is nowhere to escape radioactive contaminants at the bottom if the sea.

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Major Fire at Nuclear Submarine Plant in Barrow-in-Furness, England

Major Fire Erupts at Nuclear Submarine Plant in Northwestern England A significant fire broke out early Wednesday morning at a nuclear submarine manufacturing facility located in Barrow-in-Furness, northwestern England. The incident, which began shortly after midnight local time, resulted in two individuals being hospitalized due to smoke inhalation, as reported by a spokesperson for BAE Systems,…

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Govt Approves Nuclear Submarines and MQ-9B Drones for Military

Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) clears Nuclear Submarines, MQ-9B drones: New Delhi, India – The Indian government has given the green light for two major defense procurements: the indigenous construction of nuclear-powered attack submarines and the purchase of 31 MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft from the US defence and aerospace giant General Atomics. These acquisitions will significantly…

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India Approves Nuclear Submarines and MQ-9B Drones

India Cabinet clears Nuclear Submarines, MQ-9B drones: New Delhi, India – The Indian government has given the green light for two major defense procurements: the indigenous construction of nuclear-powered attack submarines and the purchase of 31 MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft from the US defence and aerospace giant General Atomics. These acquisitions will significantly bolster the capabilities…

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4D Model - USS Virginia - 1/700 - Mini Kit

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Embarrassment for Xi Jinping as China’s new nuclear submarine sinks at Wuhan port