On the reuse of US Navy reactors
MAY 01, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/1.3592015
Dave Dooling’s suggestion for reusing old naval reactors has precedent. I visited the US Air Force Ballistic Missile Early Warning System installation at Thule Air Base in Greenland in the mid 1990s. While there, I was told the diesel-fueled electric generators at the Top Camp radar site had been salvaged from World War II–era submarines. Recycling naval reactors has merit and represents a prudent use of tax dollars.
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Nicolas S. Powell. (npowell2@juno.com) Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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