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Monday, January 12, 2015

Submarine asbestos cleanup could get pricey

Walrus class SSKThe removal of carcinogenic asbestos from the Royal Navy submarines will be an expensive job. On its own, the cleanup of the submarine Zeeleeuw will be a million euros, the Defence Department said earlier in the week.

In the coming years, three other submarines will be cleaned up in the same manner as the Zeeleeuw. The Defence does not yet know the total cost of the operation.

The television program Brandpunt Reporter reported its own research in which it reveals that the staff of the Zeeleeuw had been exposed to asbestos found in the walls of the submarine for years.

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3 comments:

  1. michael12/1/15 10:38

    Pedantic it may be, but there is only one Royal Navy.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy_%28disambiguation%29

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  2. Unknown12/1/15 19:10

    It's just a translation of Koninklijke Marine, there's no Netherlands included.

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  3. michael12/1/15 23:37

    Exactly, which there should have been, as I said I was being pedantic but the fact remains

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