Talk:USS Seawolf (SSN-575)

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At the moment, the infobox shows the First Navy Jack. Is this because of the bicentennial? Other then-active ships, e.g. USS Halibut, seem to have the traditional jack in their infoboxes nevertheless. FloK 22:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(However, during early dock side testing severe leaks in the superheaters in Seawolf's sodium cooled reactor plant had required the superheaters to be bypassed and made in-operable. Seawolf operated with out the superheaters for the rest of the time she had a sodium cooled reactor plant. When Seawolf's reactor's fuel was depleted, (ADM Rickover had planned all along to standardize submarine reactor power plants. He had ordered 3 of each type of reactor plants, sodium cooled and pressurized water cooled (PWR). S1W (A PWR)was the prototype for the USS Nautilus. S2W was installed in Nautilus. S3W was a spare plant. S1G (A sodium cooled plant) was the prototype for Seawolf. S2G was installed in Seawolf. S3G was a spare plant. After the problems with the superheaters in Seawolf, ADM Rickover decided on the PWR plant that was used in Nautilus as the standardized plant and to this day all US Submarines have PWR power plants.).

There's some good content there, but it's poorly constructed and inaccurate... For example S3W wasn't the replacement reactor used here, it was S2Wa. S3W was a likely guess but not a good one! I'll try to put some of this back as I verify it, but meantime I think the article is better off without it. Andrewa 03:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]