Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuclear psub?

["Mike Orsay" <homeworld_general@hotmail.com>]

lol, it'd be an interesting idea.  though i would be a bit nervous about 
meltdowns and such.  and dale, the reason theres still diesel electrics is 
tactics.  the Royal Navy is smart:  they built the upholders.  you can shut 
down every source of noise on a diesel, but with a nuke, you will always 
have steam noises.  those Kilos that russia builds for export could be a 
deadly enemy.  sorry about this all, i just have to voice my support for the 
deisels lol.






>From: "Dale A. Raby" <publisher@thegreenbayweb.com>
>Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>To: "PSUBS.org mailing list" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuclear psub?
>Date: 05 Jan 2003 15:56:16 -0600
>
>Hey, now.... wouldn't that be cool.  The reactors on board some of those
>old space probes launched in the sixties are still producing current
>from their thermocouples in atomic piles... tiny ones at that...after
>all these years.
>
>Here's the problem... such little reactors generally use weapons grade
>reaction mass... and even when they don't they are still carefully
>controlled by various government agencies. There is radiation shielding
>and all the danger from not containing the reaction properly.
>
>Then there is the problem with people like Saddam wanting to grab your
>sub for a source of fissionable material... oh, and did I mention this?
>I am a US Army Reserve NCO, and bound to report such things to my
>commander... though I suspect he'd get a good laugh out of this one.
>
>I find it interesting though that in the 40 odd years since the
>Nautilus, that there are still military submersibles being made with
>diesel/electric propulsion.  Economies of scale, I'd guess.
>
>On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 14:59, Nero Wolfe wrote:
>
> > I was at the University of Chicago today and i saw the monument to
> > enrico firmi's CP-1.  Chicago Pile 1 was a big pile of graphite and
> > unenriched uranium...  Litterally a pile.  This got me thinking...   A
> > reactor is disturbingly simple.  I think you know where I'm going on
> > this....  The technology is simpler than cartsens boat...
>
>
>Dale A. Raby
>Editor/Publisher
>The Green Bay Web
>http://www.thegreenbayweb.com


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