As the guy that slept between thermonuclear weapons (the rocket motors mostly) and sat six feet from the shield wall of a fission plant (with many more feet to the actual plant), it wasn’t until years later did I understand that 40 foot of water between you and a pile was actually a non-issue. The blue glow is Cherenkov radiation…. the zoomies are going faster than the speed of light (in water). I knew, but didn’t fully comprehend ’till later that *that* much water turned it into a non issue.

Obligatory XKCD what-if.xkcd.com/29/

Also, I like sharing this YT video whenever humanly possible.

A day in the life of my former boat, as well as the first female two bar. (Mechanically, there is no reason for females to not be on subs; we had Midshipmen doing summer cruise around ’01 or ’02. The areas that I cared about were in “Sea Foam Green” which will not be video recorded. For context, the revision 000 of my power plant was a year after my birth (1979), even though I was ’97-03