Across the globe, nuclear power plants, and nuclear armed states, face critical issues with COVID-19.  At stages, the safety of workers has been gravely compromised.  In April, the US Navy announced that a sailor who tested positive for COVID-19 on the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt the previous month had died.  The virus had scored a veritable hit on the crew, with 600 sailors testing positive.   The scrappy handling of the entire affair led to the resignation of acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, who had, in turn, dismissed the aircraft carrier’s captain Brett Crozier.  Crozier had warned of the threat posed to his crew in a memo to the Navy’s Pacific Fleet that was subsequently leaked.  “We are not at war.  Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset – our Sailors.”

Dangerous And Uncertain: Coronavirus And The Nuclear Industry – OrientalReview.org