Navy nuclear reactor disposal practices

Brief Q&A with student. Tom believed reactors were buried in the Atlantic off Norfolk; student corrects to Washington State (Hanford).

The Navy decommissions ships in the United States, right? Some Navy ships go other places, but at least you take the reactors out first. You're probably still burying them in the Atlantic, right?

Student: No, they're in Washington State.

You're burying them in Washington State. You used to bury them in the Atlantic Ocean, right off Norfolk.