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For: Real America News Updated 17 Apr 2022, 20: 20 pm EDT
Environmentalists denounced the arrival at the Gibraltar naval base, a British colony in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, of a second nuclear-powered submariner, after an American nuclear submersible did it last Wednesday.
According to the Verdemar group in a statement this Sunday, it is the British submarine HMS Audacious, of the Astute class, with which there are already two nuclear submarines that remain moored in the Bay of Algeciras, after last Wednesday the North American USS Georgia.
Verdemar denounces that “ these submarines are authentic floating bombs and put our families and our environment at risk. We do not accept submarine operations in the Mediterranean, we are committed to denouncing these entries in all the countries bordering the Mediterranean”.
The environmental group recalls that, since the HMS Tireless was repaired, more than 10 years, more than a hundred nuclear-powered submarines have passed through Gibraltar.
Last Wednesday, the Spanish Government presented a diplomatic complaint to the United States regarding the arrival of the USS Georgia in Algeciras Bay. Now, the situation has worsened, with the presence in the area of two nuclear-powered submersibles.
The HMS Audacious was manufactured by the BAE Systems company and is one of the Astute class submarines, considered the quietest in the world. Equipped with huge nuclear reactors, this submersible entered service with the Royal Navy, British Royal Navy, in 2015.
In general, Astute-class submersibles are designed to remain hidden underwater for months or even years. Fresh water on board is produced through the distillation of seawater. As for the generation of oxygen, it is done through the chemical separation of water. In turn, carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere with the use of special ‘gadgets’.
(With Information from DW)
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