The Submarine Graveyard that Became a Nightmare (Devonport Royal Dockyard)
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
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The Devonport Royal Dockyard currently houses thirteen nuclear-powered submarines-many of which still have their nuclear cores intact. Today on It’s History, we will discover this incredible dockyard, as well as the dangers that come along with its preservation.
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Using a mushroom cloud when describing possible dangers of decommissioning a submarine’s reactor is a little hyperbolic,
Not to mention completely impossible
But it does get the point across.
Caught me off guard with that image lmao
@@oldman975 Not really it’ll be a environmental hazard it’s not going to incinerate a entire coastal area
Didn't look like a mushroom to me.
Established Titles is a scam BTW, you may as well make your own lordship certificate in microsoft word and print that out instead, it would be just as legitimate as Established Titles and you don't have to give your money to scam artists :P
Exactly R J. Generally one can call oneself what they like if the intent is legal. Will call myself "Lord Bo" and see if I get a discount at McDonald's.
It's not intended to be serious. Lol. It's a fun way to fund planting trees
It's mostly intended as a lark.
@@tarajoe07 they aren't doing that either :P
@@ShadowWizard123 you can have a lark without paying scam artists though, you could make a certificate title yourself, then declare a piece of your garden as your holdings, and even have a little display there lol
"Nuk-U-lehr" LOL Sheesh!
It depends on where you're from. If you don't pronounce everything correctly then what does that make you?
@@ut000bs A Yank ?
Reactors stop requiring constant external cooling shortly after they are shut down. You should learn (at least) the basics instead of spreading irrational fears 🙄
I had always thought that once you retrieve the rods, coolant is not necessary.
@@IDNHANTU2day , not instantly (check out the Fukushima incident), but it's a matter of hours, not even days, until the reactor is cool enough not to melt its insides 😎
Appart from the risk of terrorist activity, the dangers of a dirty steam explosion would spell the end of the Uk.
Most of these subs have been laid up for decades, I should think their reactors are cold enough hence why scrapping is beginning.
@@IDNHANTU2day "insert"
A 27' drought?
As in "draft"
@4:54, "Draught"? You meant "DRAFT" it is and English thing.
Established titles is literally buying a bridge somewhere else and that's an old scam slogan.
Truly wonderful to see me hometown featured in this video x
We lost many others too, HMS Plymouth itself was scrapped and sold to breakers despite being such an important ship, having the ceasefire of the Falklands war signed in her War Room. A shame indeed.
Hello fellow Plymothian!
Sparkwell here.
I was lucky enough to go on board the Plymouth when they brought her home to our beloved city, before she went to scrap, spent many navy days in the Dockyard as my father spent 30 years working in there as a leading slinger.
He worked in all the ships during the Falklands, he came out in 1990.
We lived at Keyham most of our lives.
Same
Most of the retired Polaris boats are actually berthed in Rosyth near Edinburgh. There's only fleet subs in Devonport.
I couldn’t listen any further than “nukular.”
Why?
good luck with your condition.
Awww.
@@msw7021 If you don't know, it's pointless to explain.
Likely the most mispronounced word in the English language. I’ll never understand why people pronounce it like that.
Great watch, now I want to watch "Hunt for Red October" Thanks for posting.....
It would be nice to see the HMS Valiant and Conqueror to be turned into museum ship..
This is more about submarines than the Yard itself. The submarine complex is but a small part of a three-mile-long facility which at one time could accomplish absolutely anything for ships.
It was 'contractorised' in 1987 [when I worked there] and much of it subsequently sold-off and/or demolished. In 1982 18,000 worked there, now it's only a few thousand . . .
When I was based there in 2006 , I was told that the T boats would be left for 10 years for the reactors to cool down.
So you have confidence a cooler reactor will cost more to decommission one day.
Babecocks might tug it to an Asian beach?
@@davepowell7168 you'd be better off asking a submariner.
I was on the skimmers mate.
@@davepowell7168 You have to wait for the reactor to cool before you can cut it out.
The reactor compartments might end up in the US. I have no idea.
Really Ryan, a mushroom cloud isn't that a little dramatic. I enjoy your channel but you lost points on this one. Also pushing Lordship is a scam as buying land on the moon. What's next pet rocks...lol
Hey man, that acre of land I bought on the moon is gonna be a great investment some day!
At least you'd have a rock
So the pwr used here require sea water to cool them in use but as they are shutdown SCRAM they would not over heat even if depressurised. The want to remove them is understandable and the RN would like this as to there security but would have to be equally as safe were ever they are placed. One good use for them would be to place them in to use as electric generation to push up rods in fission state. they would then effectively create power for Portsmouth. As all rafted together these subs could continue to deplete there core making there eventual dismantling safer. it would mean they would have to have forced sea water through them as if they were moving. Its something that Russia has done for decades to power the towns near bases.
ps @IT'S HISTORY great vid
Welcome to Plymouth. P-L-Y-M-O-U-T-H. We're 137 miles from Portsmouth.
@@RichieWellock , for me it was quite annoying to hear this nukilar fear-mongering from someone who obviously doesn't know the first thing about how nukilar reactors work 🤪
@@thisisnev LOL to be honest I worked at at both as well Clyde. A momentary brain fart when I put Portsmouth.
The reactors are shut down and the rods are removed
A few miles from where I live the USN regularly disassemble nuke boats and ship the reactor up the Columbia for long term burial at the Hanford Works. It just takes will and money.
Everything worth doing requires only will and money.
But money is controlled by people who don't have any will.
Trouble is the people who control all this are subjected to campaigns by eco groups opposed to us well living, so getting anything done in the UK is proving to be a bloody nightmare. This "just Stop Oil" group are a prime example of eco nutters who will do anything and everything to disrupt plans.
@@GeneralJackRipper It isn't their money, it's ours. They don't care.
What about Rosyth naval base?
As a child in the eary 80s I went inside Devenport as part of navy days and had buided tour's of Frigates destroyers and submarines. And I remember looking through the periscope. We went 2 or 3 years in a row.
Yes. Build a 3 teir enclosed drydock u can tow these subs into that is 3 full levels of containment for any and all radiation problems the inner dry dock itself should be automated with all robotics and triple back ups for the equipmemt. then drag them in and take them appart.
HMS Valiant ran into propulsion issues late 1960s in the Caribbean Sea. Along with a repair team from a close naval allie, she was fully repaired to the point of continuing full workups. This watery drama closely resembled a James Bond movie.
I guess it would be a no go to use as shore power some how!
Australia needs them
yeah even though they have fuel, they would not be now powerful enough to power the propulsor's and other systems, RAN
would be best without them. Unless they were re fuelled up and that then effects there depth as to re fuel them requires cutting the pressure vessel and shell of boat. They then have to do something with the old cores. best keep them as are or use them as elec generators for the nearest town -city they are near.
The Ukraine could annoy Russia
i was a member ofthe uk sea cadets conqueror was the adopt name of the base we used in fleetwood.when she docked in liverpool one year some of was lucky enough to be invited to vist her and go aboard for a few hours one weekend.i was one loved the vist very cramp indeed but very interesting.last i heard she was one of the subs u could vist in davenport they used to rotate them.but that was yrs ago.i also did deliveries up to faslane to and got to see some of the newer subs there to and into barrow where the new ones are build what sight to see
These aren't that big of a deal. Yes there's risk, but the same as when building them
NU - CLE - AR
Wuts that even mean lol
Even the horrible auto genrated subtitles of youtube got it right...lol
simple solution tow them to Bremmerton and get the US navy to scrap them on contract if they're scared to do it!!!
nuke-lee-er
After a decade or two of sitting, these submarines reactos’ fuel fission product decay heat would be reduced to a level where active cooling requirements would be minimal and dismantling easy handled.
Dude it is called a "draft" even though it is spelled draught.. In another of your videos you mispronounced buffet. Weird when you just read all the time and never bother learning pronunciations..
BOOM!
There you have it.
My home town I live in devonport plymouth
Just scuttle them in the Mariana trench it’s deep and cold
The His/Her Majesty's Ship?
I work there. A lotttt of boats
You said "nookyoolur",.
Noocular?
Sir, the background music distracts from your narration. It’s not needed. Your content can stand alone by itself. Cheers.
I'm baffled by your lack of research into your sponsor. Seems you just follow the cash and spew nonsense depending on who lines your pockets.
So many inaccuracies, and incorrect details, it should perhaps be featured on the Comedy Channel.
Hello. Where are your replant-trees from? Are you able to provide annual updates?
Can I have one, I promise I'll take care of it!
If I become a lord, am I required to pay property taxes on the land that I own? And can I build on the land that I own?
What would you build? A mouse house? It’s only a few square feet of land.
its a scam and theya re not scottish but the company is from Honkong
“Attack Russian submarines…”???
👀
William King of England try again.
Is this the base the Americans attacked I think in the revolution.
Nu-klee-er
There's a lot of teen anxt masquerading as ocd in these comments.
Ask the Americans for help
I couldn’t listen to this video when he couldn’t pronounce Draft, even if it’s spelt draught, its draft.
Thanks Ryan l am Sub'ed...
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Мене це не цікавить. Цікавить зовсім інше. Чому ютюб блокував відео які я мала бачити ще 7 років тому?
First
Hello! :)
@@ITSHISTORY wow a comment from a channel with half a million subs! Thanks for making your videos!!
@@IIIBig I believe most of those subs are paid for, did help him in the algorhtim to gain 15K viewers on this vid though. Strangely he hardly engages with anyone, his lordship does not like criticism, and most of his vids have mistakes in them.
Give them to ukraine
Hello, are you using cuebase?
A) This is wonderful, and thank you! B) Nuke-u-ler. ☠️☠️☠️