what prevent sunken nuclear vessels from contaminating the ocean?

Question

Especially when they may be sunk in coastal water or the port?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Until it was banned by international treaties in 1993, several nations routinely dumped their nuclear waste in the middle of the ocean. As others have said, water is pretty good at containing radioactivity, but sunken nuclear vessels probably make up a tiny fraction of the total nuclear waste that’s sitting at the bottom of the ocean.