Re: submarines and Norm

["High Plains Drifter" <magna1@jps.net>]

The reason the commercial end of nuke power suffered is that the Navy would

not share their steam generator technology/chemistry with the outside world.

It made our Navy stronger than Russia's, and was classified so the Russian's

would not gain an advantage.



I have never heard of a Navy nuke steam generator needing replacement.

Extensive tube plugging was very rare.  It could be cost of materialsalso,

but I believe the technology was withheld, rightly so, though.



Dean Chaney, CHP



----- Original Message -----

From: "Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:04 PM

Subject: RE: submarines and Norm





> Another point is that the Navy does not have the same cost-benefit

problems

> that the civilian power plants have.  We could expend more money and

> manpower of monitoring, since we did not have to show a profit.  We could

> have more stringent requirements than those of the civilian world, and

would

> have the resources to meet them.

>

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS

> LCDR, USN (ret)





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