[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] Hot meters.. more

[Mike Morrow]

Gordon wrote:

>My son, a Navy commander, who has been a reactor officer on the 
>Eisenhower, recalls that during one test aboard ship for radioactive 
>leaks, etc. they found the gray paint on the deck was giving off slight 
>but measureable amounts of radiation, but the reactor was absolutely
> clean.

I was an engineering officer on a submarine that was being overhauled in 1977.  After a couple of Chinese above ground nuclear weapons tests that year, we had for a couple of weeks to put on partial anti-contamination gear before entering the reactor compartment.  This wasn't to protect us from picking up contamination from the reactor plant, but rather to prevent our contaminating the reactor plant with the Chinese fallout on this side of the world that we would be carrying on our normal clothing and shoes.

Mike / KK5F