Originally Posted by Hethrow Harry
Probably the warheads wouldn't go off (but that's the subject of this whole thread) but if the reactor area had been hit and breached rather than a rather slow bump amidships then you would certainly have had some radioactive spillage
No, not really. The reactor compartment may have been breached, but that doesn't even start to mean that the reactor would have been. There have been a lot of incidents, land and sea, where reactor integrity has been compromised, but these have been from a number of reason other than collision. Land based reactors with containments can even stand up to large impacts.
It is not as simple as thinking that the numerous reactors around the world are so vulnerable to damage. And the warheads are very much safer than you may think.
Happy to discuss further - up to a point.