http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nuclear-scare-at-navy-submarine-base-after-unbelievable-failures-8861361.html
A major nuclear incident was narrowly averted at the heart of Britain's Royal Navy submarine fleet, The Independent on Sunday can
reveal. The failure of both the primary and secondary power sources of
coolant for nuclear reactors at the Devonport dockyard in Plymouth on 29
July last year followed warnings in previous years of just such a
situation.
Experts yesterday compared the crisis at the naval base,
operated by the Ministry of Defence and government engineering
contractors Babcock Marine, with the Fukushima Daiichi power-station
meltdown in Japan in 2011.
It came just four months after
the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, announced that the base would
"remain vital in the future".
The failure of the
electric-power source for coolant to nuclear reactors and then the
diesel back-up generators was revealed in a heavily redacted report from
the Ministry of Defence's Site Event Report Committee (Serc).
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