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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (30766)	5/25/2005 5:49:21 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 116555

The chief (packing a sidearm to make sure nobody got to the reactor who wasn't supposed to) said the reactor was aft of the torpedo room where I stood. As I recall (it's been 20 years), that space was roughly a cylinder about 14 feet across -- it could have tapered back another 15 or 20 feet from there, but it was hard to tell. He said the reactor was accessed through the door we could see, meaning I was standing just fifteen feet or so from the actual core. That's a tad closer than they let me get to a core when I toured Hanford as a high schooler. I can't recall where the turbine was at this point, if it was elsewhere on the boat or aft of the reactor. Maybe I just viewed it through a hatch and didn't see much. I have a vague recollection that it was near midships or slightly aft of midships. The only spacious place was the galley; everything else was very cramped. If I worked on that boat, I'd be whacking my head every hour or two until I learned to crawl around. The torpedos just fore of the reactor were something to see -- old Mark 48 beasts that were almost two tons apiece. One of the sailors who was stationed there showed us his shortened ring and middle fingers, pinched off "like a knife through butter" when they lowered a Mk 48 onto the support rails and he had a hand in the wrong place.