A Submarine Discovers 200,000 Barrels of Radioactive Waste Buried for Decades by Exploring a Remote Atlantic Site
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Thousands of barrels of radioactive waste, some of which have undergone severe corrosion and appear to be leaking material into the marine environment, have been discovered by scientists on the seabed of the northeastern Atlantic. More...
The scientific expedition, led by the National Centre for Scientific Research of France (CNRS), has completed the collection of samples on the conservation status of radiactiactive drums discharged in the Northeast Atlantic, near the Galician coasts, between the 1940s and 1980s.
Getty Images An international scientific expedition has revealed that many of the more than 200,000 containers of radioactive waste dumped into the Atlantic Ocean decades ago are now leaking and spilling onto the seabed. Images from the French manned submersible Nautile show corroded steel casings releasing their contents at depths of nearly 5,000 meters, contradicting assumptions that the waste remained contained. This discovery emerged during …
Seville.- An oceanographic expedition led by the National Centre for Scientific Research of France has analyzed the state of radioactive waste from more than 200,000 barrels dumped between the 40s and 80s of the last century in the Atlántica abyssal area, 650 kilometers from Galicia. The samples collected in the campaign, which has had the participation of researchers from the National Center of Accelerators and the University of Seville (US), w…
European scientists take samples at more than 4,700 meters depth to study whether radionuclides discharged between the 40s and 80s have spread across the Atlantic.
Scientists have explored the North-East Atlantic in depth and discovered thousands of drums of radioactive waste, largely hidden for decades on the ocean floor. Some containers are severely corroded and allow matter to escape from the sediments around them. The site explored has more than 200,000 drums, abandoned during the second half of the 20th century. The discovery was made as part of the NODSSUM (Nuclear Ocean Dump Site Survey Monitoring) …
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