Posted on Sep 18, 2018
The Army finishes dismantling an old Liberty Ship’s nuclear reactor
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In this 2005 photo, the Savannah rests beside the Sturgis barge, right, which were both anchored near Newport News, Va. The Sturgis is a 440-foot-long World War II Liberty ship that the Army converted into a floating nuclear power plant in 1966. Crews in Galveston, Texas have completed work on the former ship that was converted to a barge-mounted nuclear reactor but has now been cleared of irradiated waste and will be scrapped. The former USS Sturgis will be towed to Brownsville later this month.
The Army finishes dismantling an old Liberty Ship’s nuclear reactor
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
CW5 Jack Cardwell Actually a Great Idea in some ways, Natural Disaster Occurs, Float that Bad Boy in and Presto Chango, Some Power has been Restored. Now the Part that is Different, Odd, Just Plain Weird, Navy Reactor (On Some Level All Reactors are Navy Reactors since the #2 Man in the DOE is a Navy Admiral and he has to bless all Military and Civilian Reactors before they go Critical) but for all intents and purposes this Reactor was Operated by the Army. Also Putting it on a WWII Liberty Supply Ship?
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Capt Daniel Goodman
https://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia%20flying%20muclear%20reactor%20aircraft%20project&client=puffin-a&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
You might find these an interesting comparison by way of analogy....
You might find these an interesting comparison by way of analogy....
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I mentioned this before...I'd actually seen the NS Savannah as a kid, with my parents, next younger brother, and a cousin, when it was somewhere in NYC...we went on a tour at the time, I must've been maybe eight or 10 at the time, I think, though I do recall it...I'm unsure where it was, Manhattan, Brooklyn, I can't recall that aspect now, I'm afraid...that story I hadn't heard, though....
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That is interesting, certainly, given, as I'd explained before here, my family had gone to see the ship when my next younger brother and I were kids, with an older cousin, and our Mom and Dad....
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