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6. You would think that they would...

Sat Dec 14, 2013, 04:58 PM

Dec 2013

Although the military has an approach to everything and if the standard procedure doesn't call for checking the water that they take in for desalinization for radioactivity - then unless someone thought to do it, I believe it wouldn't have gotten done.

They certainly should have had the equipment on board. In the army (years ago) we had little badges that changed colors (that as a carpenter I only wore very rarely in NBC training) and I would think everyone on a nuclear vessel would wear something like that, but perhaps not.

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