CVN-76 (Ronald Reagan) sea trials testing of CMWS:
Posted on 03/13/2011 10:35:27 PM PDT by americanophile
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and other US Navy ships in the waters off the quake zone in eastern Japan were repositioned after the detection of a low-level radiation plume from the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant located 100 miles away.
According to 7th Fleet Commander and Spokesman Jeff Davis, the ships were moved away from the downwind direction of the plant as a precautionary measure on Sunday.
The carrier is one of seven US Navy ships that were quickly moved to the eastern coast of Japan to assist with relief operations after Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
The ship's crew was exposed to a very low level of radiation.
"The maximum potential radiation dose received by any ship's force personnel aboard the ship when it passed through the area was less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun, " Davis said.
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Stay safe!
Well I certainly didn’t see the news at 11:21 this morning at 2:49 this morning. You do realize that this is a very fluid situation that is changing hour to hour? Yet those stories still don’t contain anything indicating an imminent danger to the U.S. or any significant danger to the sailors on the USS RR.
CVN-76 (Ronald Reagan) sea trials testing of CMWS:
I was a DCA (Damage Control Assistant)and I hated testing those damn things. The nozzles always got non-skidded over...
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