British nuclear subs repeatedly leaked radioactive material

[The Master]

Britain's nuclear submarine fleet has been hit by a series of serious safety breaches involving repeated leaks of radioactive waste, broken pipes and waste tanks at its home base on the Clyde, the Ministry of Defence has disclosed.

In a confidential report released under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD has admitted that safety failings at the UK's main nuclear submarine base at Faslane, near Glasgow, are a "recurring theme" and ingrained in the base's culture.

The worst breaches include three leaks of radioactive coolant from nuclear submarines in 2004, 2007 and 2008 into the Firth of Clyde, while last year a radioactive waste plant manager was replaced. It emerged he had no qualifications in radioactive waste management.

The repeated safety breaches, which have been revealed in documents released to Channel 4 News, are so serious that the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has warned that it would consider closing the base down if it had the legal powers to do so.

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[The Master]

the U.S. navy did this all the time with their nuclear powered vessels. In one case, the Brazilian air force saw the brownish discharge trailing out of the ports on the side of the hull and threatened to 'open fire' if the ship did not shut the valves and cease the dumping.

the reason for this, is that stainless steel 'mutates' and 'rusts' when exposed to ionizing radiation, and this 'rust' builds up in the primary coolant core and raises the primary coolant loop pressure, and causes 'hot spots' in the loop, jeopardizing the crew. So, they flush the loop, and sometimes they pick a very bad location and time to do it.

I'm bet this is what the British subs were doing. Flushing COBALT 60 out of the loops.

btw: it's HIGHTLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE, nothing you want to brush your teeth with!