Executives at the Royal Navy’s Submarine Delivery Agency received “performance” bonus payments despite the HMS Vanguard stuck-bolt scandal, The Times reported on January 29.
The additional story came to light after the British Navy launched an investigation into an incident where torn off bolts in the reactor compartment of a submarine carrying Trident missiles were secretly glued together with super glue.
An English newspaper, eager for scandalous stories, drew attention to Defense Minister Ben Wallace and the Babcock company, whose workers carried out contracts for the Royal Navy to repair the nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard with a displacement of 16 thousand tons.
As indicated in the article, we are talking about the seven bolts of the insulating casing of the pipes of the cooling system of the nuclear reactor of the submarine. Failure detected in time “avoided an accident like Chernobyl”, writes the sun
The bolt heads were torn off by over-tightening, which was apparently carried out without the use of a torque tool. As you know, removing the bolt shaft requires laborious manipulation, drilling, or the use of a special tool that you may not have at hand. Eventually “Instead of reporting the damage and spending time reaming the broken rods, civilian staff at defense contractor Babcock reglued the heads together.”
The same newspaper The Times recalls that the equipment in the area of the HSM Vanguard reactor was damaged during repairs and fuel supply in the dry dock of the Plymouth seaport. He started the remodel in 2015 and was four years behind schedule. The cost of the repairs was over £300 million.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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