How is it safe to have a nuclear reactor on aircraft carriers and submarines when they are a potential military targets?
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If an aircraft carrier or a submarine gets attacked and sunk then the problem of the reactor is likely to be quite a distance away from anywhere people regularly live. You know, because they will be somewhere out in the ocean. So the reactor will sink with the rest of the ship deep underwater and while it of course isn’t going to be great for the patch of the ocean floor it ends up at, it isn’t a problem for the country that deployed the craft.
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