Crew members of the submarine HNLMS Sealion lakes their ship in 2010. Photo ANP / Koen van Weel
The Lion of the Royal Navy crew members of the submarine prolonged exposure to carcinogenic asbestos. Reported Focal Reporter today based on their own research. The TV program cites internal documents of Defence.
Those documents would show that it is a “historical contamination” that has already occurred during the construction of the submarine 25 years ago. Since then, the Sea Lion has been used by the Navy, with all the risks that entails. The dangerous asbestos fibers are among the bundles of wiring the boat said Reporter.
The Navy has decided not to remove the deadly fibers, but to stick with a special resin. “Otherwise we would have to demolish the ship,” says the director Material Conservation of the Royal Navy, Robert C. Boelema in the broadcast. But from a confidential document which Focal Reporter quotes show that Defence had another consideration to leave the asbestos. “Cleaning the cables would enormous additional remediation and restoration work entail.”
Defense denies opposite Reporter that passengers are exposed to asbestos fibers into the ventilation system, because the infection could only have occurred during large maintenance in the removal of a heating element. “Then we sailed zero hour,” says the director Material Conservation of the Navy.
But according to a report of an asbestos removal company the contamination in the air conditioning system of the naval vessel originated much earlier due to “improper removal” of a heating element, writes Reporter. The third infection was discovered early last year, according to the program.
The ministry did not respond today, reports news agency ANP.
The KRO program spends in the broadcast of Sunday attention to the issue (preview here). Last year it was announced that the Department of Defense from 1989 until at least after 2002 accepted that employees were exposed to the carcinogenic chromium-6 paint
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