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When a naval reactor fails it gets submerged in water. When an inland reactor fails it either gets submerged in water or the area potentially becomes uninhabited for generations. It’s really all about access to water. Even an island nation like Japan has had trouble keeping nuclear reactors full of water in the past, e.g. Fukushima.
And? So what? There are 9 sunken nuclear submarines on the ocean floor, about 700 Nuclear vessels have sailed since the 1950s and about 200 are current.
They generate a little heat but thats about it. The water shields the outside world from wide spreading bursts of radiation.
Did you read the article? Once seawater enters the reactor, corrosion might affect the control rods to the point where the whole thing might spiral into criticality, maybe to the point of the reactor exploding. It’s just a bit of heat for 50 to 100 years until it suddenly nicht become an atom bomb.
When a naval reactor fails it gets submerged in water. When an inland reactor fails it either gets submerged in water or the area potentially becomes uninhabited for generations. It’s really all about access to water. Even an island nation like Japan has had trouble keeping nuclear reactors full of water in the past, e.g. Fukushima.
Er, wasn’t the problem at Fukushima caused by the plant being full of water?
Interestingly, seawater corrosion can actually cause criticality for nuclear reactors instead of preventing it.
And? So what? There are 9 sunken nuclear submarines on the ocean floor, about 700 Nuclear vessels have sailed since the 1950s and about 200 are current.
They generate a little heat but thats about it. The water shields the outside world from wide spreading bursts of radiation.
Did you read the article? Once seawater enters the reactor, corrosion might affect the control rods to the point where the whole thing might spiral into criticality, maybe to the point of the reactor exploding. It’s just a bit of heat for 50 to 100 years until it suddenly nicht become an atom bomb.
9 of them
Very constructive.
We’ve also set off hydrogen bombs on the surface of the ocean several times.
Now do me a favour and take a look at where those 9 subs are lying around and tell me it’s just as far away from inhabited areas.
Spoiler: it’s not.
Kind of means fuck all when they can’t produce enough power to remove the literal seas between them.