[mkjessup]

That's why the United States Navy should have been running the civilian nuclear power generation industry from the very beginning. The Navy has made mistakes like any entity, but their record on nuclear safety I would stack up against anyone else's on the planet.

BS. The only reactor related fatalities we have ever had in the US have been at a Naval reactor facility. And since every thing the Navy does is stamped "secret" and there is zero oversight of the Navy by the NRC, we don't have a clue as to how many mishaps may have occurred while every stubbed toe in a commercial plant is documented in detail and reported by the NRC.

I presume that you are speaking from either actual experience or from personal knowledge?

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I presume that you are speaking from either actual experience or from personal knowledge?

20 + years in the commercial industry with lots of experience with x-Navy nuke guys. The Navy would never get to sea if they had to live with the NRC looking over their shoulder every minute of the day.

[cav68]

SL1 project ring a bell, I would suggest you do a Google search, 3 killed, bodies 3 weeks later were severed parts and were buried a Rad Waste. Human Error caused the accident not a government agency.

[riverdawg]

"... Naval reactor facility."

The NRTS, to which you referred (implicitly), was an Army facility.