Wonderful nuclear submarines!! Let's not spoil the joy by thinking about their WASTES

Well, nobody knows what to do with them, you see. So the supposedly brilliant men who run the world have us convinced that we need nuclear submarines - to defend ourselves. But how are we going to defend ourselves from the thousands' year toxicity of their ionising radiation?

The picture above gives a hint of the problem of nuclear submarine wastes on Russia’s Kola Peninsula. For 35 years, highly radioactive fuel assemblies have been stored in these rusty, partly destroyed steel pipes. Some 22,000 spent fuel assemblies are stored in the tanks, coming from 90-100 reactor cores powering the Soviet Navy’s Cold War submarines - about two times the amount of fissile material inside the exploded Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine.

Well - that's the naughty Russians, isn't it? So international countries, led by Norway, had to pay $billions to try to clean up their mess, which endangers Europe.

But surely the West is fine in their submarine waste management?

Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States built more than 400 nuclear submarines.  Nuclear wastes from US submarines are also currently held in temporary storage, after 30 years and $7 billion, without arriving at a permanent storage solution. Britain has a number of dead nuclear submarines - but nowhere to put their wastes.

And that's not counting the sunken nuclear submarines that continue to pollute the oceans with radiation.

But let's not worry , because the brilliant men are enthusing us about NEW nuclear submarines. And, after all, these heroes will probably be dead and gone when the radioactive shit hits the fan, whether by accident, or by the slow poisoning of future generations.

And anyway, Rafael Grossi has us convinced that releasing radioactive water into the seas is just fine.