Reply to: UK faces Nuclear Danger

[xoggoth]

We could get rid of nukes but just go on pretending we still have them. As a deterrent, almost as good and much cheaper, just need a few photoshop experts.

[centurian]

The current nuclear fleet isn't a problem - all the go bang bits are maintained by the septics in Norfolk (Virginia) and the boat reactors get more care than any other bit of kit owned by the queen.

The bit that actually goes bang is ours - although based upon a similar design to the yankee bits that go bang - It's the bit that carries the bit that goes bang to it's destination that the Yanks service - and there are no radioactive bits in that.

HTH

[Moscow Mule]

I wonder if it's possible to buy a sub reactor and have it running in your back garden?

Imagine the feed in tariff on that bad-boy.

[wim121]

Easy solution to the issue. Just sail the subs over to a former soviet country. No one would notice our subs rotting alongside theirs for decades ...

[MarillionFan]

I think he's right. The best bet is to let the French and Germans build all the power stations and we just pay them a bit extra to subsidise their own countries at our expense, lest that way come an explosion they cork it instead of us.

[minestrone]

"Water might stop flowing downhill due to cutbacks the goverment is warned"

[Sockpuppet]

A nuclear safety commission that wants more money for something they oversee. There is a shock.

In times like this they're not likley to say "nah, we're doing fine. Rolling in it" are they.

[Moscow Mule]

The current nuclear fleet isn't a problem - all the go bang bits are maintained by the septics in Norfolk (Virginia) and the boat reactors get more care than any other bit of kit owned by the queen.

What is a medium term worry is the decommissioning of old boats, but tbh it's really not anything to worry about unduly.

I haven't read the report but it's undoubtably a variation of the same report moaning about lack of funds that has been written every year for the last 4-500 years.

[Churchill]

Here it is Nuclear safety getting worse in military facilities, says MoD study | World news | The Guardian

I think the very disturbing aspect of this report ,is that given due to MODs Defence Cutbacks we cannot maintain our current Nuclear Deterent in a safe manner.

It does not make sense to aim to expand Trident's capabilites as Dr Fox wishes - with the resultant massive speding that would entail -.

Fo all of our sakes - lets hope some urgent action is taken to avert a calamity.

Scaremongering sh!te... Sorry AJP but it is.

[AtW]

This country faces far more real and imminent danger from those referred to as "useful idiots".

[AlfredJPruffock]

That report is bollocks!

Why do you thnk that ?

[AlfredJPruffock]

Linky?

Here it is Nuclear safety getting worse in military facilities, says MoD study | World news | The Guardian

I think the very disturbing aspect of this report ,is that given due to MODs Defence Cutbacks we cannot maintain our current Nuclear Deterent in a safe manner.

It does not make sense to aim to expand Trident's capabilites as Dr Fox wishes - with the resultant massive speding that would entail -.

Fo all of our sakes - lets hope some urgent action is taken to avert a calamity.

[KentPhilip]

It's like having an old box of fireworks in the garage, gathering dust and moss. I think we should let them all off, somewhere over Essex preferably..

[doodab]

Cutbacks make nuclear bombs and boats unsafe, warns MoD - Channel 4 News

[wobbegong]

The risk of accidents and radioactive leaks from Britain's ageing nuclear bombs and submarines is getting "progressively worse" because of deepening spending cutbacks, according to an internal Ministry of Defence report.

etc. etc.

Linky?