Reactor Explodes After ETN2 Miscopies DE/DT Serial Number

Leak continued until all upgrades completed

NEW LONDON, CT - According to a recent incident report obtained by The Subpar Group, the reactor on board the USS [REDACTED] suffered a severe primary coolant leak after a sailor incorrectly wrote down the serial number of a laptop during a routine maintenance item.

The ETN2 recording the data mistook a ‘3’ in the center of the 15-digit-long serial number for an ‘8’, and the error was not caught by the EDPO, EDO, RCLPO, RCLCPO, RCA, or ENG due to a lack of integrity and formality, among other watchstanding principles.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene in the engine room, with the leak beginning as soon as the Engineer inked his signature on the Reactor Controls division maintenance paperwork, cementing the error as official and beyond the fix of a simple one-line and initial. The Naval Reactors Representative credited the watchstanders for taking proper immediate action as soon as the casualty began, as they quickly convened a critique and removed all those who failed to catch the typo from watchstanding duties pending a formal upgrade. Root cause analysis traced the error to the development of decimal numbering notation in 8th century Persia. 

The leak was finally stopped when the maintenance item was reperformed by a different ETN under the supervision of the EDMC and the ENG signed a new, correct data sheet. Naval Reactors released a Z0ZZ to the fleet reminding all hands of the vital role DE/DT serial numbers play in the integrity of the reactor.