Water leak in the reactor compartment. Submarine USS "Pittsburgh" returned to base

USS US Pittsburgh (SSN-720) submarine of Los Angeles class (Los Angeles) was forced to return to the registry port at the Groton Naval Base (Connecticut) due to a detected water leak in the reactor compartment, Navy reported. Times with reference to the representative of the Atlantic fleet USA.

As the spokeswoman for the US Atlantic Fleet, Commander Sarah Self-Kyler, reported, the leak was located next to the valve of the nuclear power plant and was detected during a routine inspection. The leak did not affect the operation of the ship’s systems and does not pose a danger to the crew of the submarine, added Self-Kyler. Currently, the submarine "Pittsburgh" is at the naval base "Groton", where the specialists of the base together with the crew of the submarine "are working on the problem."

It should be noted that the Shipyard Electric Boat Corporation is located in Groton, which produced about half of the American submarines.

The USS "Pittsburgh" multipurpose nuclear submarine (SSN-720) is the 33 in the series of 62 Los Angeles-class submarines built for the US Navy. Introduced into the US Navy 23 November 1985 of the year. Home Port Naval Base Groton.

Displacement above sea level 5895 tons, underwater 6292 tons. 110,3 meter length, 10 meter width, 9,4 meter draft. The speed above the 20 nodes, the official submarine more than 20 nodes. Operating depth from 250 to 280 meters. Extreme depth of immersion 450 meters. Crew 12 officers, 98 sailors.

Powerplant: S6G nuclear reactor. Armament: 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes; Tomahawk 12 missiles in vertical launch mines.

Comments

[poquello]

astronauts drilled

[Sarmat Sanych]

They will write off the campaign, otherwise the grave will become a grave for sailors. There is one minus for the mattress covers - and this is not bad.

[poquello]

Quote: Sarmat Sanych

They will write off the campaign, otherwise the grave will become a grave for sailors. There is one minus for the mattress covers - and this is not bad.

patched, they have the same repaired trash like ours, if not cooler

[Boa kaa]

a leak was near the valve of a nuclear power plant and was detected during a routine check. The leak did not affect the operation of ship systems and does not pose a danger to the crew of the submarine

Quote: poquello

patched, they have the same repaired trash like ours ...

In general, there is nothing infa about. It is impossible to understand from it: the leak belongs to NPP systems (PPU, 3-circuit system, or generally left-handed), because "next to the NPU valve" - ​​only a kettle can write ... Maybe this system is not even in the head of the special hold! Although, in the reactor compartment this is excluded ...

[poquello]

Quote: BoA KAA

a leak was near the valve of a nuclear power plant and was detected during a routine check. The leak did not affect the operation of ship systems and does not pose a danger to the crew of the submarine

Quote: poquello

patched, they have the same repaired trash like ours ...

In general, there is nothing infa about. It is impossible to understand from it: the leak belongs to NPP systems (PPU, 3-circuit system, or generally left-handed), because "next to the NPU valve" - ​​only a kettle can write ... Maybe this system is not even in the head of the special hold! Although, in the reactor compartment this is excluded ...

so уestrus wrote, began to be leaking from ..

[newcomer]

the submarine is 33 years old. I have a mixed reaction to this news: on the one hand, enemies and the hell with them, on the other, if anything, the nuclear reactor is not a joke.

[Vard]

Your concern is justified ... Fatigue of metal is an insidious thing ... And if you consider that they have problems with welding ... That is generally ...

[newcomer]

Yeah, the Yankees shook these fellow Saxons too.

[Zubr]

The main thing is that people would not suffer. They are the same service as we are, who is acting, who is in stock. We also had such unpleasant cases.

[san4es]

Quote: Vard

... Fatigue of metal is an insidious thing ... But if you take into account that they have problems with welding ... In general ...

- Slightly off topic, the crippled "boat grandfather" turned up ... and also Pittsburgh.

USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) enters the harbor after typhoon damage in the China Sea.

[newcomer]

to see it was not sickly chatter. Sanya, be healthy!

[NIKN]

Quote: san4es

USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) enters the harbor after typhoon damage in the China Sea.

The typhoon had a charge of 500 kilograms of TNT, no less ...

[san4es]

Garik ... Nikolai ... But it was like this:

Heavy cruiser "Pittsburgh" (CA-72, type "Baltimore"), 1945.
June 4, after participating in the battle of Okinawa, the cruiser fell into a strong storm, the height of the waves reached 30 meters, wind speed - 130 kilometers per hour. As a result of the 7-hour battle with the elements, the bow was lost, but the ship did not lose speed and by June 10, at a speed of 6 knots, was able to reach the Navy base in Guam.
On June 24, a cruiser with a plug in place of the bow headed for the largest Pacific maintenance base Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (Bremerton, WA), where repairs were made.
The 30-meter bow was subsequently taken in tow and also delivered to Guam. She was given the nickname "McKesport" (a suburb of Pittsburgh), and the cruiser itself - "The Longest Ship in the World", since there were many thousands of kilometers between the bow and stern.
The cause of the incident was defective welds during the construction of the ship.

[Zubr]

In general, it is worth paying tribute to the shipbuilders. Withstand waves in 30 meters, not everyone can stand it. And what remained afloat, this monument must be put to command and command of the ship in the struggle for survivability. They worked well, harmoniously.

[FC_ZP]

That is, even then they had a problem with seams.

[sabakina]

Mdya, Sanya, not their hats, but some kind of tartlets!

[san4es]

Quote: sabakina

... not their hats, but some tartlets!

- You do not understand anything ... in "nautical fashion"

[Gray brother]

Quote: newbie

then a nuclear reactor is not a joke.

The ocean is big - Fukushima is still crap in it and nothing.

[newcomer]

I understand that the ocean is large, but not as much as we would like. Until now, ours still didn’t understand how the Norwegians poisoned the ocean. Our fish turned out to have a sick fish, they are not there. and then a couple of such Angels, and even near our waters, will be unsweetened.

[Gray brother]

Quote: newbie

than the Norwegians poisoned the ocean, we got sick fish in our wlad,

And the Baltic states are not sick? There mustard was drowned in quantity. I am skeptical about your comment.

[newcomer]

your right. but for some reason, our fish “fell ill” precisely at the time of increasing our exports.

[Piramidon]

Quote: Gray Brother

Fukushima still spoils him and nothing.

How to say. When you buy fish in a store, do you use a dosimeter? So I don’t use it, and there may be all kinds of crap from the periodic table and above.

[Gray brother]

Quote: Piramidon

and there may be any crap from the periodic table and above.

Not really scary, because you don’t eat the same thing all the time. And at the expense of the table - better read the composition of the product on the sausage.

[Piramidon]

Quote: Gray Brother

And at the expense of the table - better read the composition of the product on the sausage.

I understand that this is humor. Well, yes, I would like to read the entire list of elements and isotopes in sausage. A-4 will take three sheets. You will get out of "Magnet" in a day.

[Gray brother]

Quote: Piramidon

and isotopes

With isotopes there is such a topic that they accumulate in the body, but in order to achieve critical indicators you need to constantly eat something like where they are kept - for example, catfish should be caught in a cooling pond near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

[Jerk]

Yes there are examples and abruptly - such as the Great Garbage Spot. He’s generally called the garbage continent - and everyone spits on him.

[Kuroneko]

Quote: newbie

I have a mixed reaction to this news: on the one hand, enemies and the hell with them, on the other, if anything, the nuclear reactor is not a joke.

Rejoice that at least drug addicts do not serve on it, as it was recently discovered in Britain. It would be much more dangerous and really - no laughing matter.
https://warfiles.ru/166713-oblava-na-narkomanov-v-vms-britanii.html

[New Year day]

it happens. I have a classmate, a ship repair engineer, worked at a factory in the Murmansk region and died of radiation sickness. 50 he was

[Gray brother]

Quote: Silvestr

died of radiation sickness

Violation of TB.

[New Year day]

Quote: Gray Brother

Violation of TB.

who knows that? Who will say this7 But there is no good guy. I studied well at school, I graduated from the institute in Nikolaev, and I don’t have it.

[Gray brother]

Quote: Silvestr

who knows that? Who will say that

There is no place for heroism, there are only instructions and regulations. You can observe or violate them.

[sabakina]

Quote: Gray Brother

There is no place for heroism, there are only instructions and regulations. You can observe or violate them.

Brother, you tell VERESKA this, he crawled over these reservoirs there at work, though they banned him and left somewhere. Alive will appear, will tell a lot.

[Piramidon]

Quote: Gray Brother

Quote: Silvestr

died of radiation sickness

Violation of TB.

It is quite possible that the "employers" stupidly drove into the active zone, knowing and not warning. It will become of them.

[VALERIK_097]

And you can get more details please. This is an emergency for any NRS unit. I myself have visited all the "nuclear garbage dumps" in the northern part of the Kola Peninsula for my work. For 20 years of work in ZSR I have never heard something like this at an enterprise. I don’t think that your classmate was one of the two lovers of color. The RTG was disassembled on the coast.

[aszzz888]

The leak did not affect the operation of ship systems and no danger to the crew of the submarine, added Self-Kyler

... this is to reassure the public ...

[_Kotegpushisteg_]

How long will we use this nuclear guan to pollute the planet? It has long been clear to all adequate inhabitants of the earth that nuclear energy in the biosphere is an absolute evil despite songs about safety and reliability

[Fedorov]

This is not evil, but irresponsibility and lack of control. I’ve been to Chernobyl more than once and somehow I don’t even sneeze. Although the "crust" of the victim living in the "zone" (and there are 4 of them) is.

[Examenatornick]

poor rapans

[Piramidon]

Quote: Examenatornick

poor rapans

Rapanam, like cockroaches, drum radiation.

[NF68]

It's time for the Americans to blame Russia for this. Something they still "slow down" with this case.