They are old acquaintances and not very pleasant visits on this side of the Gibraltar Fence. It is a ‘Astute’ class nuclear submarine which stopped at the port of the British colony this Saturday morning.
As confirmed to ABC Verdemar Ecologist, it may be the ‘HMS Audacius S122’ although it still does not have all the information. This scale has not been reported from Gibraltar.
This environmental organization once again denounces this arrival and recalls that the ‘Astute’ class submarines have been doing reparations in Gibraltar. «Nuclear reactors represent multiple threatssuch as earthquakes, floods, extreme weather events or aging and the management of the nuclear industry and the accidents, for which we are not prepared. Furthermore, a large part of the nuclear reactors exceed the age of their design life,” Antonio Muñoz, spokesperson for Verdemar-Ecologistas en Acción, told this newspaper.
As has been explained, everything indicates that They continue to make repairs to these “floating bombs” in Gibraltar since the ‘HMS Tireless’ left the waters of the Bay of Algeciras 20 years ago.
«The military port of Gibraltar is becoming a port where the United Kingdom takes its submarines for repairs. This type of work on nuclear submarines in Gibraltar is becomingor in danger and at risk to the population of the Strait of Gibraltar. We ask once and for all that Gibraltar be free of nuclear-powered devices and other vessels that are veritable floating bombs. We do not have nor do we want a nuclear emergency plan, but rather for them to leave. We warn that we are not going to stop at the complaint, we will act using methods that are within our reach to scare away this nuclear risk,” he added.
These new generation, powered submarines of the Royal Navy usually call at the Gibraltar naval base. The ‘Astute’ class has the largest length, the most advanced technology and the greatest attack capacity of all submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy by combining top-of-the-line sensors, design and weaponry into a highly versatile vessel.
According to some specialized portals, these submersibles are the bigger and more advanced of the Royal Navy and contain cutting-edge design and weaponry.
Gibraltar is a supply base for British and American nuclear submarines, which keeps the population of the area in suspense due to the risk of a nuclear accident occurring. The arrival of ‘Tireless’ in the year 2000 for a repair at the Peñón naval base provoked loud citizen protests and complaints from political representatives on this side of the Fence, as well as diplomatic actions by the Government of Spain. This British booster remained in the Rock for a year to undergo repairs to the primary system of the nuclear reactor. Since then, the Gibraltar naval base has received more than a hundred nuclear-powered submarine stops, some with important breakdowns.
In the Campo de Gibraltar they have been demanding for years a nuclear emergency plan to act in the event of an accident involving one of these thrusters, something that Gibraltar does have.
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