Comments by "That Car Guy" (@ThatCarGuy) on "Why is HMS Queen Elizabeth in Oman?" video.
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@tsubadaikhan6332 You can bury them in the ocean.... This is why sinking nuclear submarines isn't an issue as the cooling effect of water keeping the reactor from reaching high temperatures and melting down. Since the ocean is so vast, the water will not heat up. Now that doesn't mean there will be no radiation, just minimal.
For example USS Thresher, USS Scorpion, K-27,
K-8, K-219, K-141, K-159 and so on, all nuclear submarines that have been sunk. Russia did this on purpose, and even tested low levels with multiple reactors. Source IAEA:
"There is concern about radioactive contamination from nuclear waste the former Soviet Union dumped in the sea and the effect this will have on the marine environment. According to an official "White Paper" report compiled and released by the Russian government in March 1993, the Soviet Union dumped six nuclear submarine reactors and ten nuclear reactors into the Kara Sea between 1965–1988. Solid high- and low-level wastes unloaded from Northern Fleet nuclear submarines during reactor refuelings were dumped in the Kara Sea, mainly in the shallow fjords of Novaya Zemlya, where the depths of the dumping sites range from 12 to 135 meters, and in the Novaya Zemlya Trough at depths of up to 380 meters. Liquid low-level wastes were released in the open Barents and Kara Seas. A subsequent appraisal by the International Atomic Energy Agency showed that releases are low and localized from the 16 naval reactors (reported by the IAEA as having come from seven submarines and the icebreaker Lenin) which were dumped at five sites in the Kara Sea. Most of the dumped reactors had suffered an accident"
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