my very own submarine ?

[Kapitan]

theres a guy in london i think it is and he builds submarines to order, now id like one but i dont have the $600,000 he asks for :D

and no im not asking you people i know how tight you all are :arrgh!: come to think of it so am i :o

but does anyone have any more info on this at all please.

he can design and make small submarines (about the size of avalon) and make the dive to 400 meters.

[Type941]

he can design and make small submarines (about the size of avalon) and make the dive to 400 meters.

may be 40? :roll: :yep:

[Camaero]

I would like one so I can sail around the world Nautilus style. Just call me Captain Nemo. :arrgh!:

[Kapitan]

no it is 400 meters he stated he can and has made submariners for the oil industry with depths, in excess of 375 meters

[TLAM Strike]

Why not just plop down 300 mil and buy a Kilo. If you turn pirate you could make your money back in a year! :arrgh!:

How do you think I plan to retire!

[Kalach]

Everyone on subsim should put in some $ and we can give it away in a competition. After we've added the torpedo tubes, hydrophones, and other bits of course :hmm:

[Oberon]

Why not just plop down 300 mil and buy a Kilo. If you turn pirate you could make your money back in a year! :arrgh!:

How do you think I plan to retire!

Sounds like a good idea, we can set up the Subsim retirement home :up:

[Godalmighty83]

ive just watched a programme on some russian nukes that are simply being left to rot on the edge of the old soviet state as disposing of the titanium would cost more then the salvage charge.

yeah mr putin? il give ya a tenner for that one in the corner. is that a genuine 125,000 on the clock?

[Kapitan]

airlines could buy an old hulk of titanium and use that for fan blades in jet engines :D

[Wim Libaers]

Strange, considering titanium is a very valuable metal. You'd expect people to pay for it, unless the contamination is too serious.

[XabbaRus]

This is your captain speaking. If you look out of your windows and look at the engines you can see how they glow in the dark :)

[Kapitan]

been sitting on the kola peninsular for 10 years so contamination levels would have dropped radicaly.

there is one submarine an echo class that cannot be moved it has to stay there for another 40 years because of contamination, and it is only kept afloat buy pumping compressed air into it.

[lesrae]

been sitting on the kola peninsular for 10 years so contamination levels would have dropped radicaly.

there is one submarine an echo class that cannot be moved it has to stay there for another 40 years because of contamination, and it is only kept afloat buy pumping compressed air into it.

As a lot of the boats laid up there (reportedly) still have their fuel in them, it'll be a hell of a lot longer than 40 years before they're safe.

[Kapitan]

no because uranium half life is shorter than plutonium

:D When I was little, me and my friends built a "submarine" from old rusty big barrel. Thanks god, we guessed to launch it to maiden voyage without crew :lol: Her maximum depth is about 7-8 meters - I think she lay there until now :roll:

[lesrae]

no because uranium half life is shorter than plutonium

Uranium-235 has a half life of about 700 million years, Plutonium-239 is about 24,000 years, but it's not the Uranium that's the main problem it's the waste products and poisons that are a byproduct of the reaction that are the worst - things like cobalt-60, caesium-137 etc., they still remain after the fuel has been removed.

After the fuel is removed, the whole of the primary circuit of the reactor is heavily contaminated and has to be dealt with. Usually the whole of the reactor compartment is dealt with as a unit (as it's designed to contain radiation :)). The USA stores them ashore, the UK is as yet undecided on their long term solution and is storing them afloat, with regular maintenance on the hulls to prevent corrosion.

This may be of interest: http://www.armscontrol.ru/subs/disposal/proe1210.htm