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To: central_va

Well stone cold fact. If a 1200 PSI steam line breaks cv or CVN the 11th commandment of NBC warfare applies. Put your head between you legs and kiss yer arse good by. One hole the size of a #2 pencil lead can dismember or decapitate you. Broom stick were your friend down in The Hole. If you weren’t sure about a line you used it to check the pipe. If the broom cut into you stepped back. You can not hear as 1200 psi superheated leak. One more fact strange but true. If The Hole became silent meaning you couldn’t hear machinery it meant a major steam break was occurring. Get the hell outta Dodge, go to the second deck and I’ll stop there but Snipes know what to do.


70 posted on 07/10/2024 11:52:38 AM PDT by cva66snipe
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To: cva66snipe
Sorry, I am not buying it. Say a 1200 psi steam pipe breaks in boiler room #1 from battle damage. The boiler is shut down and the ship keeps fighting. Why? Because boiler rooms #2,#3 and #4 are still working. I will stay and fight that ship.

OTH If a CVN takes damage and a RADIOACTIVE 1200 psi pipe breaks then the entire ship is irradiated and the reactor scrams. So you end up with $12B radiation hazard floating helplessly and worthless. Sorry I am not staying on a 95,000 ton bio/radiologic hazard. Someone else can save that ship.

78 posted on 07/10/2024 2:05:41 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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