three times, sounds like sabotage... taxpayers shouldn't pay a penny for the repairsThe pipe weld is within the area of the reactor that nobody was supposed to enter for the lifetime of the sub. The welders going in now can only be exposed for a short period of time.
There's a link to a more detailed article at the Navy Times from the linked article.
How does one screw this up?
This was a large budget job, why wasn’t it done right?
three times, sounds like sabotage... taxpayers shouldn't pay a penny for the repairsCrippled by Defective Parts
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So this was a transgendered sub?
USS Caitlyn ???
Welds, eh? Sounds like maybe a Silkwood problem?
I bet everything in the military is like this now from nukes to rifles.
Oh my. I would have expected this to have been tested eight ways from Sunday before it was ever fired up with radioactive fuel.
It being briefly enterable by humans, it probably isn’t undergoing the degree of radiation needed to cause steel, etc. to break down. So it can’t just be that.
Adm. Rickover is not pleased.
5.56mm
I know guys that have done welding on nuclear power plants. That stuff is usually inspected, xrayed, inspected, xrayed from the other side....Let’s just say that more than one person screwed up.
Why do I have a feeling these parts were made in China?
So much for the “Sub-Safe Program”...
No excuses, though, when it comes to the described weld failures in this story.
It was defective and/or failed joints that led to the loss of the USS Thresher in April 1963. That disaster is what spawned the birth of what was known as ‘SUBSAFE’, an internal Navy program to guarantee that such a loss could not happen again.
The Thresher (SSN-593) and the Scorpion (SSN-589) are the only nuke subs we’ve ever lost at sea, hopefully there will never be any more.
K 19 the widow maker
Great film!!! Harrison Ford.
That is Affirmative Action for you.
I don’t believe an experienced inspector was NOT assigned to inspect the welds before nuclear fueling of the vessel. I don’t believe it.
Somebody had to know, and somebody dodged their responsibility for some reason that must be found out.
Thermal sleeve?
It was probably made in China. Everything else we get is made there.
“Look for the union label...” Remember that song?
Wow. That Navy Times article mentions the term ‘unauthorized parts’. Somebody(s) in deep yogurt if they let that go through. Spent many years in Supplier Quality and subcontractor oversight, although not in welded parts. Everything that company provided would be suspect at this point. I went to their website, no posting of their actual quality certifications, only that they have them. Now I’m left wondering if the part was welded at the manufacturer facility or somewhere further in the assembly process. I’d like to be a fly on the wall of those failure analysis meetings..
If they were minority hired contractors they will not be charged with anything.