Claims made that broken bolts on HMS Vanguard’s reactor chamber were stuck on instead of replaced
has ordered an urgent investigation amid claims that workers on a Trident nuclear armed submarine fixed broken bolts in the vessel’s reactor chamber using glue.
Engineers at the contractor reported it as a procedural glitch after the problem was found, but did not mention the botched nature of the repair. The glued bolts held insulation in place on the coolant pipes in the nuclear reactor and were found just as workers were set to fire it up to full power for the first time, the newspaper reported.
The spokesperson said the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, met with the chief executive of Babcock, David Lockwood, “to seek assurances about future work”.
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