See, they are building up the gulf knowing Iran committed an act of war against
the USA with the billion dollar blowing up of the nuclear submarine USS Miami SSN
755. They have been flooding weapons and soldiers into the gulf the moment they put
the fire out of the sub. This is a grave
national security secret allowing us to build up in anticipating pulling the Iran war trigger?
Published: July 3, 2012
WASHINGTON — The
United States has quietly moved significant military reinforcements into the
Persian Gulf to deter the Iranian military from any possible attempt to shut
the Strait of Hormuz and to increase the number of
fighter jets capable of striking deep into Iran
if the standoff over its nuclear program escalates...
"something similar in our future"
"something similar in our future"
You see what the Navy is saying...it is beyond chilling. The Navy said a submarine fire of the same magnitude or worst is a certain probability in the future and it could occur at any USA or foreign port anywhere!
"...They are also expected to identify causal factors that may run concurrently through the investigations and provide a detailed understanding that ensures that every step possible is taken to learn from this fire and that all involved are better prepared to prevent something similar in our future,” he added.
...."all involved are better prepared to prevent something similar in our future,” he added.
The emergency DG is in the forward section of the ship. Who even knows if they were hooked up to water and were they doing work on the machine. That leaves shore power...and it is usually routed though the buses back aft and through the aft engine room hatch. Do they have redundant shore power connections? So you know all the big electrical cables, well relatively, going thought the forward section was all melted toast and theoretically they were all shorting. We don't know how the protective breakers reacted back aft worked...did they trip forward power within the inferno without tripping aft buses and reactor electrical power. And if one breaker failed to protect reactor electricity...it would big trouble quick. They do have a emergency means to cool the core at sea...but we don't know if it was pressurized with cooling water and would the electric valves have survived the high heat to work?
And the guys who were standing watch back aft during the fire inferno manning the reactor station are national heroes...we as a nation should give honor to these heroic men! Why are we hiding these heroes behind this unnecessary Navy secrecy?
Right, at the end of the day, the conflagration might have severely degraded the electrical power supply to core safety components. This might cause rewiring of all submarine electrical safety buses and their protective/breaker schemes.
They should have brought in criminal/terrorism experts of the FBI and Homeland Security. I bet you they destroyed a crime scene by cleaning up the ship so fast and not letting the federal terrorism experts have a swing at collecting evidence."
While the Navy claims the submarine’s nuclear reactor and propulsion system are intact, unofficial reports indicate severe damage forward of the amidships bulkhead, which separates the forward working and berthing spaces from the propulsion systems.If that bulkhead had severe damage...how far were we to cracking open the bulkhead directly into the next compartment over...the reactor compartment? The extreme hot fire gasses and combustion gases would enter the reactor compartment, maybe the sound damping foam in there would catch on fire....the temperatures in the compartment would skyrocket. Can you imagine in this roaring submarine fire the reactor instrumentation and electrical components start to flicker on and off...then go dead. I like the Navy to inform us if there was any kind of damage to the reactor compartment. It would skyrocket reactor compartment temperatures and all electrical cabling, electronics, instrumentation and their cabling would quickly fail. We don't know the nature of Navy metallic based nuclear fuels and their high concentration U235 fuel. So eventually the core would go dry. As in Fukushima, tremendous amounts of hydrogen and oxygen would be released and fill the sub. Eventually there would be a huge detonation cracking open the hull of the sub like Fukushima. I imagine the ship would get blown off their drydock blocks and land on its side. The reactor operators would dead and no electricity. I doubt we could extinguish the resulting fire and or clouds of radiation for weeks or months with the sub on it side. We couldn't tow it out to the deep ocean and sink it. With all its years in operation on this old sub, I'll be you they had a lot of decay heat load from the accumulation of used and remnants of the fuel.
I bet you we were the closest the US Navy ever came to melting down a nuclear core in 60 years.
Imagine the international ramifications if another nuclear submarine ever caught fire like that in a foreign port and exploded...thus melting down its core and sinking to the bottom of the harbor after being cracked open?
Board formed to review fire aboard sub Miami
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Jun 29, 2012 16:36:57 EDT
excerpts:
...A coordinated effort to review all aspects of the fire on the nuclear submarine Miami was established Wednesday.
...Rear Adm. Terry Kraft, commander of the Naval Warfare Development Command, has been directed to put together a panel that “will review the ongoing investigations, findings, and any other information necessary to obtain a complete understanding of the event,” said Capt. Chris Sims, a spokesman for U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, Va. “To do this, additional interviews may be conducted as well as additional documentation collected.”
...The fire, the Navy said, started when hot welding slag in a vacuum cleaner caught fire when the implement was placed among some cleaning supplies and left unattended.
...While the Navy claims the submarine’s nuclear reactor and propulsion system are intact, unofficial reports indicate severe damage forward of the amidships bulkhead, which separates the forward working and berthing spaces from the propulsion systems.
...Navy leaders have vowed to repair the 22-year-old submarine — which already is scheduled to be taken out of service in 2020 — but no decision is expected until the investigations are complete.
...Kraft, working under the overall direction of Adm. John Harvey, commander of Fleet Forces Command, is to head the effort “to review and consolidate all the reports associated with the Miami fire,” Sims said in a statement.
...“They are also expected to identify causal factors that may run concurrently through the investigations and provide a detailed understanding that ensures that every step possible is taken to learn from this fire and that all involved are better prepared to prevent something similar in our future,” he added.
...“The Navy is diligently investigating this incident from many different perspectives — from ship to shore, to maintenance and many other points in between,” Sims explained.
...The effort will continue “as long as it takes to get the answers we need,” Sims said.
A final report is due to Fleet Forces Command 60 days after a signed command investigation is presented.
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