Nuclear reactors and pollution

[SeaQueen]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead Nuke

How big were the charges and how. close to the hull were they? I can not say.

It's most likely classified. It you knew that, you could design a better torpedo to from it. :-)

I know that the NSWC in Carderock, MD used to have a pool for doing scale model testing of this sort of thing. I took a tour of that when I was a scout, and when they detonated the charge to demonstrate for the crowd, I nearly jumped out of my skin!

I suspect that someone probably has a fairly good idea of what it takes to sink a sub from various engineering tests and computer models. I know that the probability of failure for situations where there is a weakest link follows the Weibull distribution. It would make sense to me that the engineering testing would be designed to fit parameters to that distribution, as well as to identify points of failure and try to harden them.

There's also some other stuff I've seen, but can't really talk about here.