Nuclear submarines and cultural memory of nuclear waste

If a post-apocalyptic society developed an Adeptus Mechanicus-style machine religion, which naval technology would become most sacred?

Nuclear submarines are the choice, linked to real proposals for preserving warnings about nuclear-waste sites through cultural memory across generations.

The fictional machine-religion premise leads to nuclear submarines because their reactors and waste connect naval technology with long-lived hazards. Proposals to preserve knowledge of dangerous storage sites through culture offer an alternative to relying only on technical records. Later generations could inherit stories or taboos that mark a site as a place to avoid even if they no longer understand radiation. The panel presents a religion built around forbidden waste zones as one possible thought experiment, not as a prediction of how a post-apocalyptic society must develop. Nuclear safety becomes a problem of memory, language, and institutions across very long spans of time.