>>891647Yeah, if by "healthy respect" means "run in circles and scream."
It's incredibly difficult to fuck up nuclear waste handling. Especially so in the sea. In the absolute worst case, you're sinking with or jettisoning the fuel store to the ocean floor, where it is inert and safe until someone cares enough to recover it.
Even if you do so in a port, the underwater waste container is not going to do anything. The water insulates it from its radiation perfectly at a meter's depth or so. The only risk you're taking is that if a diver dives down there and goes to touch the container.
You're taking far, far more liability accepting a fossil fueled ship into port than you do with a nuclear ship. Oil spills are a real, actual threat. Atmospheric emissions are a real, actual threat. There is no such thing as a nuclear spill, as the nuclear material simply sinks to the bottom and stays there.
