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The main Nuclear Submarine base is in Scotland, at Faslane, as it has been for forty years, most of the warheads are stored and maintained at a weapons depot a few miles up the road from there.
The submarines aren't routinely loaded with nuclear weapons anyway so the only radiation source is the reactor in the boat. Nuclear reactors do not explode, they are designed not to. The fools at Three Mile Island in the USA, years ago demonstrated that fact. They did every wrong move in the book and it still didn't explode. Even Chernobyl didn't.
That leaves release of radioactive contaminants into the atmosphere. Given where the submarine's reactor is, that would be a little difficult since it's under the water line for a start. Could an accident on a submarine cause contamination problems round about it - yes.
Could it lock you up in a school for a month sucking on toxic potassium tablets - someone would have to be really stupid.
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