Not mentioned in this article though -- and likely not mentioned in any of the current media coverage of the Comfort's deployment to New York City -- is the fact that, for at least a part of its life, the Comfort was anchored very near the long-retired Nuclear Ship Savannah in Baltimore Harbor, Maryland.
Although there have been no reports of radioactive contamination leaking from the Savannah, the reactor internals are still radioactively contaminated, including with some 5,000 gallons of radioactive water that was never removed, as well as radioactively activated and otherwise contaminated metal.
And the Savannah has suffered damage over the decades, including from being swamped by a hurricane, causing significant rust and degradation that has largely to entirely not been repaired.
Beyond Nuclear learned of the Savannah's and the Comfort's close proximity in port, by attending Savannah nuclear decommissioning public meetings nearby, a decade or so ago.