Submarine Fleet

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Condi said:

McGee_22 said:

Scandalous? Not really - wander up onto the granite moors of Devon and Cornwall and you'll get a higher dose of radiation than if you stand on the casing of one of those old hulks.

Time consuming and technically difficult to dispose of a submarine - certainly; but once they've done the first one (Swiftsure?) they'll fully develop the program and get cracking on the rest.

"Get cracking" in the mind of a nuclear engineer means somewhere between 3-5 years if it's not too complicated, or decades if requires more paperwork!

Don't forget you have the super-speedy MoD Procurement Department and their streamlined policies to help things fly by at an amazing pace...

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You can go on a tour of HMS Courageous, which is moored up right by the ones awaiting decommissioning.

As they said .. those ones awaiting to be defueled / dismantled are getting safer every day as the nuclear material decays.

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