but you're twelve feet from a nuclear reactor

[Zorro]

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/03/navy_smoking_subs_032810w/

CNO: Smoking ban for subs in the works

"That atmosphere moves around the submarine," Roughead said. "You don't smell it, but the damaging things from the smoke are still present."



you're sitting on top a nuclear fuel...really want to be safe ban that.

[StanUpshaw]

Right...because the number of deaths, or even injuries, caused by a nuclear sub reactor are....?

[Crossweird]

Well, maybe the seamen will smell better now.

[Dude!]

Right...because the number of deaths, or even injuries, caused by a nuclear sub reactor are....?

please stop interjecting
facts and logic

[Zorro]

Right...because the number of deaths, or even injuries, caused by a nuclear sub reactor are....?

You're the one with the mortar board. You tell me.

[A.J.]

And he wanted to defect....

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GQygw-XI3NQ/SwtTQEP8DXI/AAAAAAAAAj8/D_JdNvbdX84/s1600/huntred6.JPG

[StanUpshaw]

You're the one with the mortar board. You tell me.

There have been more incidents than I was aware of, but they were all Soviet (those fuckers don't know their asshole from U235):
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1961USSR1.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1960USSR1.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1965USSR2.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1968USSR6.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1978USSR8.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1979USSR5.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1985USSR1.html

Total fatalities: 30
Total injuries: 180

[Willmore]

Right...because the number of deaths, or even injuries, caused by a nuclear sub reactor are....?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_submarine#Accidents

[Furtherman]

And he wanted to defect....

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GQygw-XI3NQ/SwtTQEP8DXI/AAAAAAAAAj8/D_JdNvbdX84/s1600/huntred6.JPG

I knew A.J. would come through with this reference!!



But seriously... you're in a metal tube underwater with certain death just a bulkhead away. Let 'em smoke!